It's amazing two of the 2024 #NobelPrize were for AI! But as they say: it took a village. "We didn't win a Nobel", a parody of Billy Joel 's "We didn't start the fire" covers a tiny sliver of this historical "village". Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

We are excited to share the keynote talks from CoLLAs 2024 on our YouTube channel! 🎥✨ Dive into cutting-edge research and insights from leading AI/ML experts: youtube.com/playlist?list=… #AI #MachineLearning #CoLLAs2024 #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning #Research

Excited to share our work at #EMNLP2024! 🎉 If you're interested in adversarial robustness or robustness in general, I'd love to connect and discuss :) Unfortunately, I couldn't attend in person due to visa issues, but I’m available for online chats! 📍 Today 17:45 to 18:45 EST

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

Multi-Agent RL fails in real life. Agents cooperating to solve tasks remains a utopia. -No scalable algorithms for general-sum games. -In a simple apple-harvesting game, PPO agents overharvest and ruin bushes. Advantage Alignment (ICLR 2025 Oral📢) is a huge step forward. 1/n

The Dwarkesh/Andrej interview is worth watching. Like many others in the field, my introduction to deep learning was Andrej’s CS231n. In this era when many are involved in wishful thinking driven by simple pattern matching (e.g., extrapolating scaling laws without nuance), it’s

Thrilled to share our new #NeurIPS2025 paper done at Google DeepMind, Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment We prove every agent faces a trade-off between its capacity to adapt (plasticity) and its capacity to steer (empowerment) Paper: david-abel.github.io/plasticity.pdf 🧵🧵🧵👇

Had a chance to attend this talk at our group meeting. Very exciting work!!

8 years ago, I sat in Doina’s RL class as an enthusiastic MSc student. This winter, I’m co-teaching that same class with her at McGill 👨‍🏫 Life comes full circle 🔁

Since AI has been added to sinus surgery - "Two (patients) suffered strokes after surgeons accidentally damaged carotid arteries while the system allegedly misinformed them about where their instruments were inside patients' heads."

David Silver's new $4bn company, Ineffable Intelligence, will fulfil the promise of the Era of Experience. youtube.com/watch?v=zzXyPG… ft.com/content/dffe72…

I am excited to share the past 5+ years of my PhD work on continual reinforcement learning at Cohere Labs on March 3rd! Doina and I spent significant time and thought developing this framework; we believe this holds the key to continual learning.

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 3rd for a session with Nishanth Anand focused on "The permanent and transient framework for continual reinforcement learning." Learn more: cohere.com/events/cohere-…