Press Coverage
Below are articles covering our lab's research or for which we were asked to provide commentary.
2026
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IEEE SpectrumAI Is Starting to Build Better AI
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NewstalkWill AI replace scientists?
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Quanta MagazineDistinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality.
2025
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MIT Technology ReviewFive ways that AI is learning to improve itself.
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Fast CompanyWhat is 'self-evolving AI'? And why is it so scary?
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Business InsiderAI isn't ready to do your job.
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The RegisterBoffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated.
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CBC Quirks & QuarksScience is being transformed by the AI revolution.
2024
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Air Street PressOpen-endedness is all we’ll need.
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The New York TimesWhat to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
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The New York TimesHow Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
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MIT Technology ReviewGoogle DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario-like games from scratch.
2023
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The New York TimesHow ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers.
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The New YorkerCan We Stop Runaway A.I.?
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The Washington PostThese 4 free apps can help you identify every flower, plant and tree around you.
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The Globe and Mail‘I hope I’m wrong’: Why some experts see doom in AI.
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The LogicThe people to watch in Canadian AI.
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QR Calgary RadioInterview on QR Calgary Radio with Rob Breakenridge.
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TalkRL PodcastJeff Clune. ~Hour-long interview.
2022
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This Week in Machine Learning (TWIML) PodcastJeff Clune: Accelerating Intelligence with AI-Generating Algorithms.
2021
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MIT Technology ReviewAI is learning how to create itself.
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Scientific AmericanMachine Learning Pwns Old-School Atari Games.
2020
2019
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Nature Machine IntelligenceMoving beyond reward prediction errors.
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Communications of the ACMLifelong learning in artificial neural networks.
2018
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MIT Technology ReviewAI is helping wildlife biologists identify rare beasts on the Serengeti.
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The New York TimesGoogle Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn.
2017
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MIT Technology ReviewThe Dark Secret at the Heart of AI.
2016
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Coverage of our startup Geometric Intelligence being acquired by Uber occurred in Wired, Fortune, the New York Times, MIT Tech Review, BBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, and many more.
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Nature News, Nature News PodcastCan we open the black box of AI?
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Two commentaries in Nature and one in Science.
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Coverage in BBC, Washington Post, The Guardian, Nature News, NBC News, NPR’s Science Friday, The Atlantic, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, BBC Inside Science, BBC World Service, The Economist, CNBC, Popular Science, Christian Science, Discover, Wired, Daily Mail, Voice of America, Le Monde, Liberation, Gizmodo, IFL Science, IEEE Spectrum, The Times, The Verge, Live Science, The Register, BFM Business, Wyoming Public Media, Vice, and many more.
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Popular ScienceSee the difference one year makes in artificial intelligence research an improved way of learning about neural networks.
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Popular ScienceThis sculpture was designed and 3d printed by an AI artist.
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HowStuffWorksAre you actually an android?
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Laramie BoomerangUW professor’s research lights up scientific, media interest.
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Wyoming Public MediaProgramming Through Trial And Error, With An Emphasis On Error.
2015
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The EconomistRise of the machines.
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Scientific AmericanTeaching Machines to See.
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Communications of the ACMTeaching computers with illusions.
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Nautilus MagazineArtificial intelligence is already weirdly inhuman.
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Motherboard magazineHow automating evolution could give machines imaginations.
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BBC World ServiceWhy computers forget. Also on interviewed for BBC Four.
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The AtlanticTeaching a computer not to forget.
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Popular ScienceTo build multi-tasking robots, mimic the human brain.
2014
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MIT Technology ReviewSmart” Software can be tricked into seeing what isn’t there.
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WiredSimple pictures that state-of-the-art AI still can’t recognize. (Rebroadcast on Slate.)
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The AtlanticHow to fool a computer with optical illusions.
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New ScientistOptical illusions fool computers into seeing things.
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BBC (featured on homepage)Robot learns to keep going with broken leg.
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IEEE SpectrumHexapod robot gets even better at being indestructible.
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Slashdot (homepage)Robot with broken leg learns to walk again in under 2 minutes.
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CNET VideoTomorrow daily. (Show featured segment on robot damage recovery).
2013
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Discover NewsEvolution helps build better robots.
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NBC NewsSquishy virtual creatures 'evolve' walking behaviors. (The story was also featured on YouTube’s Most Popular Videos page, MSNBC.com, and the front pages of Digg.com, Hacker News, BuzzFeed, and Reddit Science.)
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National GeographicThe parts of life, by Carl Zimmer.
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Through the Wormhole with Morgan FreemanAre Robots the Future of Human Evolution?
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Popular Science175,000 ways to walk.
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Houston ChronicleLaramie club teaches students to control robots.
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Cornell ChronicleScientists find ‘holy grail’ of evolving modular networks.
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Neuroscience NewsEngineers solve a biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence.
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IEEE SpectrumBizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run.
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NSF HighlightModular Biological Networks Avoid Costly Connections.
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Servo MagazineAracna: 3D printed, open-source robot.
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Miami Herald/Houston Chronicle/Laramie BoomerangLaramie club teaches area students to control robots.
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UW NewsVisiting doctoral student from Norway works to evolve robots to learn better.
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ZDNet.comFabricated: The New World of 3D Printing.
2012
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NPR (National Public Radio)Academic Minute – Evolution and Embryology.
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MIT Technology ReviewComputer scientists reproduce the evolution of evolvability.
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Mechanical EngineeringDesign in the age of 3-D printing.
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ScienceDaily.comWhy do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use?
2011
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The New Scientist (featured on cover)Darwin’s robots: A holistic, evolutionary approach means that robots could learn to design themselves.
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MIT Technology Review3-D design simplified: a new website could accelerate the adoption of 3-D printing.
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Hacker News (front page)Breed 3D printable objects, no technical know-how needed.
2010
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The New Scientist (featured on cover)
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US News & World ReportNew MSU research sheds light on how we become altruistic.
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The Daily TelegraphComputer-simulated life forms evolve intelligence.
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Communications of the ACM‘EndlessForms’ uses the Web to breed 3D printable objects.
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ScienceDaily.comResearch sheds light on altruism.
2006