For the past few months me and @pw4ltz.bsky.social have been working on a fun, visual and whimsical project: self-organized boolean computation or trying to learn boolean gates 🧮 with an NCA 🦎(Neural Cellular Automata). Check out the WIP project at: ncpu.pages.dev #NCA #ALife2026

Raw conversation history or extracted memories? We tested both—and a hybrid. 🧠

Reproducing all of Jürgen Schmidhuber’s papers (1990-2025) using an AI coding assistant. Cool project by Yaroslav! It even reproduced the “World Models” paper by me and Schmidhuber (2018) using a toy environment, with a full VAE + RNN world model implementation. Project: github.com/cybertronai/...

At @aliceworkshop.org I convinced some brilliant people to to work on my idea 💪 Artificial Life in Cellular Encoding: optimizing NCAs to preserve information in noisy environments 🎯 Code: github.com/ichko/vitasc...

Had such a great time at this weeks @aliceworkshop.org in Copenhagen. Looking forward to next year's edition!

I can’t wait! I love discussion and project based workshops ✨

ALICE Workshop@aliceworkshop.org · 7mo ago

Less than a week for ALICE—we are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! ⛄ You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/

First day of the @alife2025.bsky.social conference was fun! Our @eralife.bsky.social workshop was a success. Thanks to @risi.bsky.social, @bhartl.bsky.social, and @zzznah.bsky.social for their talks! After we checked out the local cuisine with @ilzhechev.bsky.social. #ALIFE25 #ERA

If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮 #ALIFE2025

Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life@eralife.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join ERA Workshop Lightning Talks⚡6th Oct! Present your work! This is your moment to shine ✨ (and maybe blow a few minds 💥). It doesn’t have to be finished work: project, idea, early results, or just something you want to share! 🌱 👉 Sign up here and grab a slot: 🔗 forms.gle/99jR5Kazgq66... #ERA

🪧 Last week we presented a poster at #SSCI2025: "Embodied Autoencoding Through Neural Cellular Automata". We show that NCAs can learn to compress, transport, and reconstruct complex patterns through extreme spatial bottlenecks using only local interactions.