[robrenaud]

From what I've seen at neurips, in terms of most different but maybe viable, it would be this.

https://sakana.ai/ctm/

In terms of a fresh perspective on designing learning systems, nested learning seems very interesting.

https://abehrouz.github.io/files/NL.pdf

Hearing the clarity, creativity, and force behind his thoughts and speech, I'd give a more than 1/200 chance Ali Behrouz gets himself a Turing award. At the very least, I think he will end making major contributions to AI.