# Mike Knoop shares talk on measuring open-ended AI systems

> Original title: Great talk from Ken on how to understand and measure open-ended systems

- Source: Mike Knoop
- Published: 2026-11-06T18:19:39.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/z3et8qtv1ecfyc3j3qmn0jn84
- Original: https://x.com/mikeknoop/status/2118770303170195685

## Summary

Mike Knoop says Ken Stanley's ARC Prize Research Summit talk explains how to understand and measure open-ended systems. The ARC Prize background says open-endedness, invention and discovery are essential to AGI, but designing a benchmark for them is difficult.

## Post

Great talk from Ken on how to understand and measure open-ended systems

## Quoted post @arcprize

> ARC Prize Research Summit - @kenneth0stanley
> 
> On why open-endedness, invention, discovery are essential to AGI, but designing a benchmark for them creates difficult problems.

https://x.com/arcprize/status/2118758583836049421