Super excited to share our new work (and the first of my PhD) : "Evolving Self-Assembling Neural Networks: From Spontaneous Activity to Experience-Dependent Learning" We propose Lifelong Neural Developmental Programs for continually self-organizing artificial neural networks !

Many outstanding & creative ideas on interlinking LLMs with ALife and vice versa 🤖🔄🧬 We need this type of 'translation' & cross-fertilization to drive progress! 1. Self-rewarding LLMs ⇔ Autonomy 🦾 2. Reflexion ⇔ Self-regulation 🤔 3. Tool use ⇔ Embodiment 🛠 4.

Almost time for ALIFE Conference 2024 where we will present our work "Collective Innovation in Groups of Large Language Models" We study how social structure affects how LLMs collectively play the game Little Alchemy 2 🔥+🌽=🍿 Work done with Clément Moulin-Frier Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Ida Momennejad Sebastian Risi

The 2024 ALIFE Conference 2024 is open! 🎉 Kudos to all the organizers!!

I enjoyed this paper. I've been thinking a lot recently about algorithms that construct their own search spaces, and what makes a good search space (related to "evolvability"). As my labmate Nate said, "I'm not interested in good *solutions*, I'm interested in good *searches*."

From Text to Life #ALIFE2024

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

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

And it’s a wrap! Thank you everybody for a great #ALIFE2024 conference.

Cool paper: LLMs and Artificial Life! “We examine the extent to which LLMs appear to exhibit properties such as emergence or collective intelligence, expanding beyond the original goal of generating text, redefining our perception of lifelike intelligence in artificial systems.”

Looking forward to giving a keynote at this workshop on Guided Self-Organization guided-self.org/gso-2025.html Consider submitting an extended abstract. Deadline is September 27th.

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!