Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALIFE Conference 2025 communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-alife |Deadline: May 4th

i just got an art grant from the council for the arts at MIT! *Tangible Dreams* will let visitors experiment and play with a physical neural network generating images real-time—by twisting knobs and switches, by reconnecting nodes together Arts at MIT

Our paper received the EvoApps best paper AND the EvoStar best student paper Evostar :) Congrats to Max Taylor-Davies Gautier Hamon TimotheBoulet from Inria Flowers team !! Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536

we're trying out a new paper discussion format — a self-hosted talk and discussion come chat about MAGELLAN, a meta-cognitive module allowing autotelic agents to predict their progress on unseen tasks, scaling auto-curricula to much larger goal spaces on july 2nd, info 👇

Extended Flow-#Lenia paper is out in Artificial Life journal , with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author erwan plantec below for a summary. For a full overview of Inria Flowers team research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at Demeco : youtube.com/watch?v=YYFrWN…

ARC Prize 2025 Winners Interviews Paper Award 2nd Place Julien Pourcel @ NeurIPS, Cédric, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer discuss SOAR - a self-improving evolutionary program synthesis framework that fine-tunes an LLM on its own search traces - without human-engineered DSLs or solution datasets.