Summary GoodAI researchers are co-organizing a workshop with Jitka Cejkova from the University of Chemistry & Technology in Prague (VSCHT) and Mark Sandler and Max Vladymyrov from Google Research for the 2022 ICLR Conference. The workshop, “From Cells to Societies: Collective Learning Across Scales,” will explore learning and adaptation in natural…

Summary GoodAI Grants endows a hardware grant to the Software Technology Department at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Of particular interest for GoodAI is Assistant Professor Dr. Wendelin Böhmer’s research which aims to create AI capable of multi-task learning and solving novel complex tasks. The GoodAI Grants program has…

Summary Rolando Estrada and Blake Camp of Georgia State University receive GoodAI funding for their research on a continual learning framework with modular DANs (Deep Artificial Neurons). Integrating GoodAI’s Badger architecture and principles, Estrada and his team aim to develop a continual semi-supervised learning system capable of joint supervised and unsupervised…

Summary GoodAI deepens its explorations into evolving AI architectures with a new paper — Bootstrapping of memetic from genetic evolution via inter-agent selection pressures — on patterns of meme transmission within populations of agents. The study traces memetic evolution to understand its interplay with genetic evolution and specifically, whether open-ended learning…

We recently co-organized a workshop with Google Research and the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague for the 10th annual ICLR machine learning conference. Driven by the viewpoint that intelligence is collective, we brought together a panel of experts across a range of disciplines to investigate the fundamental properties…

Summary Sebastian Risi of IT University of Copenhagen receives a GoodAI grant for his work with neural cellular automata (NCA) to grow neural network policies. Open-ended search methods that will be developed in this project are aligned with methods desirable in GoodAI’s Badger architecture. Risi and GoodAI share the important research…

Ted Chiang shares his thoughts with GoodAI’s Olga Afanasjeva on the limits of framing learning in terms of optimization and how we can draw inspiration from biological models of adaptation. An acclaimed author whose reach transcends the science fiction world, Chiang’s prose blends a broad view of science and technology…

GoodAI Research has provided funding to the ESET Foundation to support the research of scientists Miroslav Baláž and Martin Venhart. The donation is a contribution to the general advancement of science in Slovakia. GoodAI has allocated €20,000 from its grant program to the ESET Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated…

Mayalen Etcheverry is a Machine Learning researcher at Inria, University of Bordeaux. A second year PhD candidate, she is part of a long-term research program working on autonomous developmental learning at the frontiers of AI and cognitive sciences. Together with her team, the FLOWERS group, they leverage ML techniques along…