Coverage of the NORA (Norwegian AI Research Consortium) annual awards 2026, including my award for AI community building and education 🏆
www.nora.ai/news/2026/no...
Jeff is giving a keynote at ALIFE 2026. See you in Waterloo!
Small experiment on "semantic artificial life".
I put small LLMs (Qwen 2.5 0.5B) on a 1D lattice. It is an NCA where update rules are LLMs that receive tokens from left/right neighbors & their previous output and produce new output tokens.
Good news if you’re still finishing your #ALIFE2026 submission!
⏳ Deadline extended to April 12, 2026 (AoE) — final extension.
📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year.
👉 Details & templates on our website. 2026.alife.org
*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: June 14th, 2026 ***
www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/
During the NORA Annual Conference 2026 in Oslo, we presented our annual awards, recognising outstanding contributions to AI in Norway. The awards honour individuals and organisations that have demonst...
Don't know how often @sethbullock.bsky.social visits here so I wanted to convey his message that our dear friend and ALIFE colleague INMAN HARVEY recently passed away. Follow the link below to Seth's touching post on LinkedIn. #ALIFE
We are devastated by the unexpected death of Inman Harvey a few days ago. A towering figure in artificial life and evolutionary robotics for 35 years, he was a mentor, inspiration and friend to generations of Artificial Life researchers.
A full obituary will follow.
