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UBC Computer Science is hiring up to 2 full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Applications due Dec 10 2025

UBC Computer Science is hiring up to 2 full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Applications due Dec 10 2025

UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...

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AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️

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Foundation Model Self-Play: Open-Ended Strategy Innovation via Foundation Models Multi-agent interactions have long fueled innovation, from natural predator-prey dynamics to the space race. Self-play (SP) algorithms try to harness these dynamics by pitting agents against ever-impr...

For all the details, please give the paper a read!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06466

Infinite thanks to @jeffclune.com and @cong-ml.bsky.social for all their guidance!

8 months ago 7 2 0 0

Read this article on how AI is contributing to its own development, featuring UBC Computer Science Professor @jeffclune.com!

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💡The fall SRI Seminar Series kicks off on Wednesday with
@jeffclune.com (UBC / Vector / DeepMind):

“Open-ended and AI-generating algorithms in the era of foundation models”

Wed 12:30 ET
Free, online🔗srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive/seminar-2...

6 months ago 3 1 0 0

I'd post exclusively here if @bsky.app would get rid of the silly character limit

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Jeff Clune on X: "Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by @_aadharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games, like the one below 🧵👇 https://t.co/GqTWM5P3CC" / X Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by @_aadharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games, like the one below 🧵👇 https://t.co/GqTWM5P3CC

Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by
Aaron Dharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games. Thread x.com/jeffclune/st...

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AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means.
AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means. YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

Nice summary, with coverage of the Darwin Gödel Machine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ku...

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The future of AI is open-ended | Richard Cornelius Suwandi Embracing open-endedness in the pursuit of creative AI

A great summary of the latest in open-endedness research! The next big wave in AI? 🤔📈🚀

richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/op...

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Building AI Felt Like Watching An Alien Intelligence Arrive: Early OpenAI Researcher OpenAI had stunned the world by releasing ChatGPT in November 2022, but it turns out that the researchers working on the technology were even more stunned at what they'd developed. Jeff Clune, a fo...

How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention.

officechai.com/ai/building-...

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says "we are past the event horizon." Is he right? Researchers from Sakana AI and Google DeepMind have created AI that can improve its own code.

Very nice summary of the Darwin Gödel Machine in Fortune, and an interesting tie-in to Sam's excellent recent blog post.

fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...

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Jeff Clune - Professor - Computer Science - University of British Columbia Homepage for Jeff Clune, Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. I conduct research in deep learning, including deep reinforcement learning. I improve our understanding of...

Thanks!

The first two talks here are a good entry point 🍿🎬

jeffclune.com/videos.html

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I am excited to be a part of @Yoshua_Bengio's new non-profit focused on AI Safety and Existential Risk, joining the great team of Scientific Advisors. This is a critically important mission for humanity.

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It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath.

BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?

Simple: He's a coward!

Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.

Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience

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Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code.

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Note: This is not a fundamental dismissal of deep learning. In fact, we have worked improving and leveraging deep learning for years, and are optimistic about its present and future. These results point to a way it could be substantially improved, which is exciting.

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Is there a cancer at the heart of modern AI, lurking just beneath the surface of its dazzling performance? Our research suggests maybe, but also shows elegant solutions are possible (though how to get them at scale remains a mystery). Check out the eye-opening, riveting paper below!

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Why do we tolerate loud motorcycles? I can't walk around with a crazy loud speaker, yet we allow people to have (and companies to sell) insanely loud machines that torture everyone else. They can be made quiet or silent...we should start heavily taxing and fining noise polluting machines.

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Great work AlphaEvolve team!

MAP-Elites co-authored with Jean-Baptiste Mouret

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Very cool work! Fun to see an algorithm inspired by MAP-Elites help advance numerous open problems in math, computer science, AND improve Google's production infrastructure (data centers, TPU design, and AI training)! (Paraphrasing their paper and tweet).

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I greatly enjoyed “The Spectrum of AI Risks” panel at the Singapore Conference on AI. Thanks @teganmaharaj.bsky.social for great moderating, Max Tegmark for the invitation, and the organizers and other panelists for a great event!

PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐

11 months ago 8 1 2 0
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ICLR 2025 Workshop World Models - Schedule & Speaker Schedule (Tentative)

I'm giving a talk at 11:30 today in the #ICLR World Models workshop. "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Foundation World Models." Drop by if you are interested! sites.google.com/view/worldmo...

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Tom @rockt.ai did a great job in his #ICLR2025 keynote on open-endedness of explaining the ideas we are all so passionate about. A huge thanks for the kind words and for featuring our work, including Jenny Zhang's OMNI. cc @kennethstanley.bsky.social @joelbot3000.bsky.social

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Very excited for this keynote by @_rockt! Awesome to see open-endedness go from a niche (😉) area to a keynote at #ICLR ! 🌱🌿🌳🌲🍀🌍✨ 📈 🧬🧪 cc @joelbot3000.bsky.social @kennethstanley.bsky.social

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Since the dawn of my career I've heard scientists joke after every AI advance “Now we just need to get AI to write the paper. Now The AI Scientist does all the research AND writes the paper! Wild times! 🧪🔬👩‍🔬🤖

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Introducing The AI Scientist-v2, which produced the 1st fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review at a workshop level (at #ICLR2025) ‼️

Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...

This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.

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AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.

Collecting a diamond in #Minecraft is “a very hard task”, says Dr. Jeff Clune (@jeffclune.com) of @cs.ubc.ca, who was part of a team that trained a program to find diamonds using videos of human play2. “This represents a major step forward for the field.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump is the greatest gift to China in history.

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Danijar and his colleagues answered the call, finally delivering on the longstanding expectations we as a community had for the value of this type of approach. I congratulate them!

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