Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! bit.ly/4hpdsbD

Congrats to Barto and Sutton--the Christ and Paul of #RL--for their richly deserved Turing!🎉 I still remember Rich haranguing us at a 1990 planning spring symposium to see the light of Dyna and shift to RL! 😋 Christianity may have existed without Christ, but not without Paul..

🎯 Call for System Demonstrations – ICAPS 2025 The ICAPS 2025 System Demonstrations & Exhibits Program invites researchers and practitioners in automated planning and scheduling to showcase their working systems in action. Full CFP and details: icaps25.icaps-conference.org/calls/demos/

I have been having a lot of fun using Ai2 Paper finder. Highly recommend it to students trying to make sense of both recent developments and foundational work in their fields.

It ain't "The Bitter Lesson" if you are in the loop curating the training data for your LLM, y'all.. Pick your lesson, will ya? #SundayHarangue (h/t kstechly)

We (Been Kim John Hewitt Neel Nanda Noah Fiedel Oyvind Tafjord) propose a research direction called 🤖agentic interpretability: we can and should ask and help AI systems to build mental models of us which will help us to build mental models of the LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12152

Really proud to share the fact that my student will be presenting her work on generating deceptive behavior on the Talking Robotics podcast. Special shout-out to Anagha Kulkarni for helping her get started on this topic.

I am hearing good things about #RLC2025--apparently it is charting a sane academic conference path different from gratuitous glitz and razzmatazz of nouveau #AI conferences.. too bad I missed it this year.. (we do have an oral at CoCoMARL workshop 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=uQ09A…)

📢 If you are at #IJCAI2025, you might want to run to Room 518AB by 10AM to listen to Sarath Sreedharan present our AIJ paper on explainable human-#AI interaction! (Paper link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) IJCAIconf

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If you have questions about model simplifications for explanations or want to talk about human-AI interaction, make sure to drop by poster board number 37 later today at the poster session.