You might be interested in the ASIMOV benchmark: Generating Robot Constitutions & Benchmarks for Semantic Safety share.google/4gVRpGHdoDb9...
04.12.2025 12:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@oliverlemon.bsky.social
Prof in CS; Academic Lead of National Robotarium; ELLIS Fellow; Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Postdocs at Stanford and Edinburgh. Research in NLP, dialogue, conversational AI, multimodality, robots, embodied AI, collaborative AI
You might be interested in the ASIMOV benchmark: Generating Robot Constitutions & Benchmarks for Semantic Safety share.google/4gVRpGHdoDb9...
04.12.2025 12:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π’ PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 π’
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
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π New work: βLearning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Controlβ
We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.
www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/
Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!
6-panel SMBC comic update where a person asks a robot who is the background, cleaning, if they have achieved consciousness. The robot says "Nah - consciousness requires a reflective inner experience, unified persistent sense of self hood, and an intrinsic set of goals." The robots adds that an ai has no existence as it is, it just tries to meet the needs of the hour rather than eternally striving upward. This gives the human pause, and then reply "aw man, did you already attain total spiritual enlightenment?" The robot replies with "Namu amida butsu" a Japanese Buddhist chant.
The worst part of selfless robotic servants is going to be how happy they are.
COMIC β www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...
PATREON β www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE β smbc-store.myshopify.com
Important
14.11.2025 18:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! π
π Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
π link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great idea, and increasingly important to do this work.
27.10.2025 07:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Eating less/no animal products (especially beef), composting food waste, and demanding your community quickly transition away from fossil fuels are great ways to reduce methane emissions β and therefore help coral reefs because not all hope is lost!!
16.10.2025 16:39 β π 303 π 97 π¬ 8 π 5Think your LLMs βunderstandβ words like although/but/therefore? Think again!
They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession
Open PhD position in embodied AI, Edinburgh - applications closing soon!
16.10.2025 07:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0PhD positions in AI/Robotics/NLP -- deadline Friday, 14 November 2025 ! Edinburgh, Scotland π€π£οΈ -- please share!
www.cdt-d2air.uk
Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open!
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
π Shape the future of European AI! The @ellis.eu PhD Programme is opening for applications.
π§ Work with top researchers, join joint supervision π€ and benefit from networking π & training π
Info session: Oct 1, 16:00 CET.
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This week's #PaperILike is "Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models" (Shi et al., ICML 2025).
I'm often asked: how might we combine ideas from hierarchical planning and VLAs? This is a good start!
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19417
PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute
14.08.2025 14:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1"Learnings" and "advancements", both common in AI papers
04.08.2025 07:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested !
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...
Full Professor position in AI/CS -- Deadline for applications 23rd June!
16.06.2025 09:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prof position in CA/ AI -- Apply here ! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
30.05.2025 12:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed...
But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review π
ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th
Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th
Oh yes, here's the link to the actual pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08590
29.05.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Title of the paper, with a colourful "playpen" logo
π¨ New pre-print! (Well, new & much improved version in any case.) π¨
If you're interested in LLM post-training techniques and in how to make LLMs better "language users", read this thread, introducing the "LM Playpen".
Prof position in CA/ AI -- Apply here ! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
30.05.2025 12:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
All aspects of AI are in scope, including NLP, multimodality, embodied AI... DM me with questions!
24.05.2025 14:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We are hiring ! new faculty positions in AI, NLP, interactive robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
10.04.2025 13:44 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0In a nutshell β hereβs what we are working on at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the National Robotarium - our Research Themes @heriotwattuni.bsky.social #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD thenationalrobotarium.com/research-the...
06.05.2025 13:55 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...