LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

I talked about this with @kathrynnave.bsky.social at @divintelligence.bsky.social last year, and it was one of the most fascinating topics I've heard about in 2024!

B𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀! A thread... (1/13)

I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.” aamas2025.org/index.php/co... #autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat

"This book could not have been written without support from the inhabitant of a large basement that lies just beneath where the M4 motorway passes between Wokingham and Reading..." mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Can’t recommend enough, great experience. Especially if you want to meet collaborators outside of the fields you interact with.

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole" RIP David Lynch This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...

I keep seeing TikToks where students show off this AI program that records audio from a lecturer and turns it into notes while the student just plays a videogame in class. With this, AI summaries of readings, and ChatGPT writing, we are basically just teaching AI students now.

The Trustworthy AI Lab at Ontario Tech enjoyed a lunchtime winter walk, after our lab meeting today! ❄️

Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Followers count going up, time to share this again: go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you! Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife

There's losing your mind and then there's this. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

Thursday at 2pm UK time we will be discussing the BBS call re: Our Roots Run Deep: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment (Sijilmassi, Safra, & Baumard). All welcome. Link to discord: discord.gg/KX832Qnwdy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks cool as hell