My PhD student @smearle.bsky.social very successfully defended his thesis today, in front of a committee consisting of @eugenerobinson.bsky.social @risi.bsky.social Tim Rocktäschel and @phillipisola.bsky.social . Next post: link to a recording of his defense talk
Sebastian Risi
@risi.bsky.social
Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
New research out — A developmental model with morphogenetic scaffoldings to guide self-organisation: a single model, many grown patterns. The memory-compute trade-off but in self-organizing systems. A collab featuring @najarro.science, Jakob Schauser and @risi.bsky.social and yours truly
Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!
Kan naturens egen designproces videreudvikle AI? En ny lærebog skrevet af ITU-professor @risi.bsky.social m.fl. udforsker feltet 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, der kan ændre fremtidens kunstige intelligens. "Grundideen er at efterligne, hvordan intelligens opstod i naturen." Læs mere 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...
This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney
Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
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
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
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February. We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned! Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al... See you in Kyoto ⛩️
The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)
Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnoa... Bio-Inspired Plastic Neural Nets that continually adapt their own synaptic strengths can make for extremely robust locomotion policies! Trained exclusively in simulation, the plastic networks transfer easily to the real world, even under various extra OOD situations.
[IROS25] Bio-Inspired Plastic Neural Nets for Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robots
YouTube video by Worasuchad Haomachai
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Join us for the Evolving Self-Organisation workshop at #GECCO this year! Great chance to submit your favourite ideas concerning self-organisation processes and evolution, and how they interact. Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025! Submission deadline: March 26, 2025 More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025! Submission deadline: March 26, 2025 More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
Ever wish you could coordinate thousands of units in games such as StarCraft through natural language alone? We are excited to present our HIVE approach, a framework and benchmark for LLM-driven multi-agent control.
Hi, I'm Joachim, I work as a postdoc on the Grow-AI project lead by @risi.bsky.social at ITU of CPH. My PhD is titled "Bio-Inspired Approaches to Adaptive Artificial Agents" and since then, a lot of my time has revolved around Neural Developmental Programs: watermark.silverchair.com/isal_a_00755...
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This may sound odd, but game-based benchmarks are some of the most useful for AI, since we have human scores and they require reasoning, planning & vision The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD
Do babies pretrain? www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Helpless infants are learning a foundation model
Humans have a protracted postnatal helplessness period, typically attributed to human-specific maternal constraints causing an early birth when the brain is highly immature. By aligning neurodevelopme...
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Hello Bluesky 🦋 We are the REAL Lab. We work on Robotics, Evolution and Artificial Life at #ITU in #Copenhagen Follow, cite & subscribe for more news on our research 🤖
GROW-AI writing retreat ✍️ Trying to figure out our perspective on evolutionary developmental artificial intelligence 🧬