🚀 New publication! We explore mating preferences in Genetic Programming and their role as a secondary selection force. Even when not self-sustaining, they promote smaller, more diverse, and less bloated solutions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s12293…

Need to describe music as text? 🚀 Introducing 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 🎶 An open-source framework for temporally aware music caption generation. Learn more 👇👇👇

Excited to announce 🎵Magenta RealTime, the first open weights music generation model capable of real-time audio generation with real-time control. 👋 **Try Magenta RT on Colab TPUs**: colab.research.google.com/github/magenta… 👀 Blog post: g.co/magenta/rt 🧵 below

The contrast of emotions while writing (left) and after completing (right) the 530 pages of the 2nd Edition of our AI and Games textbook. Julian Togelius and I finally got a copy of the book soon before we kick-start the AI and Games School 2025. Get your own copy here: lnkd.in/dZbGCnyc

New paper! We are trying to find out how well LLMs can generate functional and novel games in the PuzzleScript game description language, especially when combined with automated playthrough based on search. This is part of our work to create new types of game design assistants.

🎉 EvoStar 2025 Awards Recap 🎉 Time to celebrate our brilliant winners! At EvoStar, we close each edition by recognizing outstanding contributions across the conferences. Congratulations to the winners! ✨👇

Controllable, Generative... Retrieval? 🤨 Delighted to share our second #ISMIR2025 paper: GD-Retriever 🐶🎧 A generative framework for controllable text-to-music retrieval using diffusion models. Accepted at ISMIR Conference ! 🇰🇷 1/🧵

🎶 AIM is live at #NIME2025! From waveform autoencoding to a Python library for Bela, our researchers, including teresa pelinski, Franco Caspe, and Lewis Wolstanholme, are pushing musical interfaces to new frontiers. Catch our papers, demos & sounds: aim.qmul.ac.uk/aim-at-nime-20…

📢 iGGi 🔜 Develop:Brighton 2025 Meet us at the iGGi stand (B12) on the expo floor and chat to our researchers!! Today, we'd like to highlight >>> Ross Fifield <<< whose research focuses among other things on Discoverability & Matchmaking! 🔍 Ross Fifield 🔜 Develop Brighton linkedin.com/in/rossfifield/

Friends, those of you who frequented certain corners of the web twenty yrs ago might remember I was quite active sharing demos & tutorials. After a break, I'm getting back into it! Will probably mostly be touchdesigner, comfyui, AI etc. More soon! patreon.com/memoakten

This was another highlight of Basel 2025 - Human Study #1 — the « automated portrait » by 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚝 It was part of the AUTOMATA installation — 3 robotic arms with cameras « redefining the boundaries of art, technology, and culture » … 🙌 ArtMeta

AI might be humanity's best moderator. Google DeepMind's Habermas Machine helps people actually find agreement, without shouting matches or overt bias. Chris Summerfield summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social & AI Security Institute gave session 6 at Oxford's AI x Philosophy Seminar. Key takeaways 🧵:

My next #LDNCreativeAI meetup will be on 15th July 'Neural Folklore, Improv and Poetic Embodiment' Human Machine Improv - Piotr Mirowski 🎭 Atay Ilgun 🎵🖼️ Diana Alina Serbanescu aka Neranti 💃 hosted at IDEALondon Subaita Sign up here: bit.ly/4lr4EnU #CreativeAI #AIart

My colleague Alexander Spangher and I are trying to film a demo for our piano autopilot on a modern Disklavier. If you're in London or LA and have access to one (or know someone who does), please DM me! #robotjazz

📢 iGGi 🔜 #DevelopBrighton Meet us at the iGGi stand (B12) on the expo floor and talk to our researchers! There'll be 23+ of us around, one of which: George Long! Drop by & chat to George about balancing #Fairness in Games, #Programming, #GameDesign. longhouse.dev

Twin Chairs number 1, 2011 Created by 'The Painting Fool', a project by Simon Colton, through his research programme as part of the Computational Creativity Research Group at Goldsmiths College, London.Goldsmiths CCG Simon had been developing Al, Graphics and Vision

how can we assess openness in music-generative AI? That’s the question we explore in our new paper, just accepted at #ISMIR2025! 📣 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03599 📌 Openness leaderboard: roserbatlleroca.github.io/MusGO_framewor… 🧵👇

📢Submit your papers and demos at openreview.net/group?id=NeurI… ! We look forward to seeing all the latest AI Music innovations!🎵

📣 Call for Papers OPEN: #EvoStar2026 📣 Join us in #Toulouse 🇫🇷 for Europe’s leading event on bio-inspired computation! 👉 evostar.org 🗓️ Submit by Nov 1, 2025 📍 April 8–10, 2026 📚 Springer #LNCS publication Includes: #EuroGP #EvoApps #EvoCOP #EvoMUSART #EML!

Very sad to learn of the death on 18th July of Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a titan of cognitive science and AI. I met her many times, and respected her greatly. theargus.co.uk/memorials/deat…