Maybe stopping wars that don’t agree with laws would be a good start

GitHub - unswei/muesli-bt: A compact Lisp runtime with built-in Behaviour Tree (BT) compile/tick support A compact Lisp runtime with built-in Behaviour Tree (BT) compile/tick support - unswei/muesli-bt

Just released muesli-bt + muesli-studio: Lisp-centred robotics behaviour trees with bounded-time planning per tick, cancellable async calls, logs + deterministic replay. Studio inspects/replays + live monitors via WebSocket. github.com/unswei/muesli-bt | github.com/unswei/muesli-studio

Well worth the hour or so of your time, here: neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

This is a non-technical, but not simplistic presentation showing patterns across history that we seem to be repeating. I think it works equally well for everyone interested in this area, whether you actually work in AI or came to AI more recently.

Just watched “Are We Having the Wrong Nightmares About AI?” by Zeynep Tufekci - what a great keynote.

It avoids the usual AI apocalypse doomsday stuff, but then, it’s also a bit deeper than the 100 repeat of the “this can’t work and I told you so” messages you hear from some.

Just a matter of time for a version of this for real robots

transformers …

Thank you!

This Monday, I am joining UNSW as Associate Professor in Robotics in the School of Computer Science and Engineering.

I will be working on embodied intelligence and collective robotics, and recruiting PhD students in this area.

Research directions: unswei.github.io

Voice of America was established during WWII to fight propaganda from Nazi Germany back then. It is only logical the current US administration wants it switched off.

At the Intersection of A.I. and Spirituality Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.

NYT: "Religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. [...], spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer A.I. tools, from assistants that can do theological research to chatbots that can help write sermons." tinyurl.com/md3nejcf

I suspect they're using deep belief networks ...

And that's the official part of the year done ... it's been a big one. Time to leave the robots behind in the lab for a short break. Thank you to all colleagues and collaborators - see you all very soon again :)

CoRL 2024 Day 1 9:00-10:30 YouTube video by Conference on Robot Learning

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ...

Yes please