#Imol2025 had it's first round of contributed talks yesterday, and continues today.

Second Keynote at #IMOL2025 is Tim Rocktäschel talking about foundation world models and Genie 3. A new frontier for world models - Google DeepMind share.google/WjyjiTlBhG5r...

Kicking off #IMOL2025 at UH. imol2025.github.io

The Generative Design in #Minecraft (GDMC) has announced the winners of the 2025 competition. Here's the announcement video from the weekend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=owJC... Official facilitator's account @gendesignmc.bsky.social Video by @christophsalge.bsky.social #procgen

The AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft has concluded for 2025 - and after a round of human judging - we are now ready to announce the winners. You can watch the results live at 15:00 UK time, on the 30th of Aug, 2025. youtu.be/owJC8QqHDTA?...

Extended Deadline (20th of July), to participate or present work at IMOL (Workshop on Intrinsically motivated Open-ended Learning). 8th to 10th of September, at @herts.ac.uk. Free registration. imol2025.github.io Please share. Below our invited speaker lineup.

Here are some of our invited speakers for the workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning at the University of Hertfordshire, 8-10 September, 2025. @herts.ac.uk #IMOL #AI #Herts imol2025.github.io

Two weeks left to register (for free) for the stand-alone workshop on intrinsically motivated open-ended learning (IMOL) @herts.ac.uk, 8. to 10. of Sept. 2025, UK. Details on website: imol2025.github.io Please share with interested parties. #AI #IntrinsicMotivation

Excited to join the project. This is a great opportunity if you want to work with Christian.

1/4 Join us and the Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group @aalto.fi / Finland to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) as PhD (4y) or postdoc (2y). Job ad w project description and application instructions: bit.ly/4jyNLGv. We're looking forward to learning about you!

1/3 Out now: new paper on people's perception of AI (robot) creativity! Core finding: we attribute more creativity to a creative act if people not only see the final artwork, but also its creation process & the robot making it. Video: vimeo.com/1073134853 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1145/3711...

Interested in working on (computational) intrinsic motivation x design x architecture? A really cool PhD project coming up - UK residents only and supervised by @christophsalge.bsky.social! Ah, and I'll be co-supervising :) All info below - many opportunities to fit in your profile and ideas.

Do you want to do a Phd at @herts.ac.uk with me in the topic of: Changing the Environment with Intrinsically Motivated Computational Creativity? Then apply for a fully funded Phd position with our Centre for Future Societies, reference ADS4. Deadline: 26. May, 2025 Details below. Please share.

Just read Mike Cook's piece on Muse Game AI generation. www.possibilityspace.org/blog-before-...

The #GDMC AI Settlement Generation Competition in #Minecraft is kicking off for its 2025 run. Feel free to share and participate. More info on our wiki gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2025-se... Do you think you can write code that can make and interesting Minecraft settlement? Show us!

Game Recommendation: The Roottrees are Dead. theroottreesaredead.com Similar vibes to ``Case of the Golden Idol'', or even ``Return of the Obra Dinn''. I investigation game where you feel like you are actually investigating.

Happy to announce that Niels has joined the GDMC organizer team - we are now getting ready for the 2025 Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. gendesignmc.wikidot.com

I'm pleased to announce that I've become part of the Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC) @gendesignmc.bsky.social competition organisation board, joining @christophsalge.bsky.social and @vherve.bsky.social

I was sick recently so I ended up watching lengthy Games studies video essays on YouTube - and I thought I would share three with you here:

We had David Tree over in the ASG lab at the University of Hertfordshire, talking about his work in digitizing and using AI to analyze the ``Warlock of the Fire Mountain'' book. Can we use evolutionary AI to determine if and what story shapes a book has? researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/d...

www.lexacademic.com/blog/ A nice blog about doing a Phd, working in academia, writing, etc, - really capturing the kind of conversations I have with my Phd students and colleauges. If you want to know more about the academic work, or get another perspective; check it out. @lexacademic.bsky.social

Having arguments about the nature of language, one cat picture at a time.

Our latest work is now available on Arxiv: lnkd.in/dMEaUzgB Normative Feeling: Socially Patterned Affective Mechanisms with @stavyros.bsky.social and Daniel Polani

Dr Simon McCools take on shallow safety alignment and how it affects classrooms. Given that Simon has years of experience as a teacher, and a Phd in AI/ML, it might be worth to take a look: www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-sim...

Was just checking out the cooking games sale on steam, and realized, I don't really enjoy cooking games, even though. or maybe because, I like cooking IRL. Question for the #Hivemind: Is there anything you really like doing (and actually do) both in a game and IRL? (repost from x)

With 5 days to go, we've unlocked stretch goal #2 for our Goal State Kickstarter! A feature-length deep dive of DOOM's AI and gameplay source code. We only 25 more backers to get us to the next deep dive on Quake 3, and 148% funding for Unreal engine tutorials! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aia...

Favorite photo I took in 2024. I think I was in a mood for coziness. #cozy

My wintertime game recommendation this year is: The rise of the golden idol. store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/... A detective game where you puzzle out what happened based on clues. Uniquely, to solve the case you have to actually figure out stuff, rather than just finding hidden objects.

Hello everyone, I am now also on BlueSky. But what to write on my first ever post, so much pressure - just like the last time, feels like only yesterday I joined that other micro posting site. What amazing things will we see here, what cool adventures will we have ... wait, is there a character limi