When you spend enough time around people who are at the top of their respective fields, e.g. world-famous computer scientists, philosophers, or novelists, it becomes clear that they are absolutely not masters of everything and are quite average at most things. Just like you or me

From Text to Life #ALIFE2024

Are LLMs Alife? Eleni Nisioti Claire Aoi Elias Najarro Laetitia Teodorescu Andrew Dai #ALIFE2024

Let’s grow some artificial neural networks 🧠🧬 #ALIFE2024 #GROWAI

erwan plantec presenting his work on Lifetime NDPs #ALIFE2024 ALIFE Conference 2025

How to make neural networks more flexible and adaptive by Joachim Winther Pedersen #ALife2024

How the setup at the hackathon demo is going? Great, why do you ask? #ALIFE2024

This was a blast! Thanks for organizing it Claire and Elias! If you missed the link to the MarioRave collab yesterday, here it is again: colab.research.google.com/drive/1U5d-DNT…

Lol, Instagram thinks this photo is AI-generated when it's just the keen eye of Melissa Farasyn working with perspective and light. A nice reminder that photographs too merely show what their creators want us to see.

2/5 Often, reviewers claim results aren't surprising to **them**. However, if no one has demonstrated or published these findings before, doesn't that inherently make them novel to the field?

📢 Only one week left to register! Join our GCND Hackathon: Automatic Linguistic Annotation and Speech Recognition of Dialects! Perfect for students and researchers in linguistics, digital humanities, social sciences and computer science #Linguistics #DataScience #Hackathon

Hard to believe we already came to this first anniversary. In Memoriam to our dear friend Philip Gosch and his wife Michaela Gosch, who tragically passed away a year ago on the 5th of September. Rest in peace, we will never forget you! gamedevgraz.at/remembering-ph…

Are LLMs able to exhibit traits usually associated with ALife approaches? How can ALife perspectives help improve the current limitations of LLMs? Read more in this review that examines LLMs from a different angle, featuring some nice graphics along the way!

Getting ready for the GCND Hackathon on ASR and linguistic annotation of non-standardized language varieties! #GCNDhackathon

Nieuw project met de lage landen bij UGent LW 🎥 FWO

Not sure whether y'all have been curious what I spend my time with these days, but in case you are, check out these slides from a recent talk I gave on resilience and adaptability in learning systems: docs.google.com/presentation/d…