Christoph Salge

Are you interested in doing a funded Phd with me on AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Check out the details below and feel free to share. Deadline for applications is 14th of November.

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It is both the final chapter of Victoire's PhD, and our attempt to provide a more detailed definition to perceptual uniqueness in PCG (and games in general), by introducing the hierarchical concepts of Landmarks, Monuments and Beacons - and some rough ideas of how to quantify / measure them.

Landmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to Action Algorithmic evaluation of procedurally generated content struggles to find metrics that align with human experience, particularly for composite artefacts. Automatic decomposition as a possible solutio...

We (@vherve.bsky.social, @warpefelt.com , me) got a new preprint out on Arxiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.19030

Landmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to Action

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Ex Novo 2nd edition (digital edition) is out, and you can already get it on the game's itchio & DriveThruRPG pages. If you have already bought Ex Novo, you already have access to the 2nd edition.

🏗️ itchio: sharkbombs.itch.io/ex-novo
🏗️ DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

#imol2025 | Christoph Salge Christian Guckelsberger was the first keynote at #IMOL2025, talking about different routes to creativity and how to combine this with intrinsically motivated learning. He also gave an overview of his...

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#imol2025 #specs | Christoph Salge Anna Jordanous keynote at #IMOL2025 focussed on creativity and the difficulty to both define and measure it. https://lnkd.in/dkqMhUgH Incidentally she also invented the name for the department I am...

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Özgür Şimşek | Christoph Salge Özgür Şimşek gave the last keynote at #IMOL2025 yesterday talking about automatically learning the hierarchies for skill acquisition. https://lnkd.in/dbVTFXuw unfortunately my photo of the talk fail...

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#Imol2025 had it's first round of contributed talks yesterday, and continues today.

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...

Second Keynote at #IMOL2025 is Tim Rocktäschel talking about foundation world models and Genie 3. A new frontier for world models - Google DeepMind share.google/WjyjiTlBhG5r...

Kicking off #IMOL2025 at UH.
imol2025.github.io

YouTube video by Christoph Salge Winner Presentation of the 2025 GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft.

The Generative Design in #Minecraft (GDMC) has announced the winners of the 2025 competition. Here's the announcement video from the weekend!

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

Official facilitator's account @gendesignmc.bsky.social
Video by @christophsalge.bsky.social

#procgen

YouTube video by Christoph Salge Winner Presentation of the 2025 GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft.

The AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft has concluded for 2025 - and after a round of human judging - we are now ready to announce the winners. You can watch the results live at 15:00 UK time, on the 30th of Aug, 2025.

youtu.be/owJC8QqHDTA?...

We got a great lineup of invited speakers so far, including @jfoerst.bsky.social @creativeendvs.bsky.social @rockt.ai @ozgursimsek.bsky.social @frabraendle.bsky.social

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Submission is either extended abstract to present a poster, or letter of letter of motivation to just attend. This is not a peer review publication, can be past work, work in progress, planned. Review by organizers for topical fit. Mostly a place to get together with others to discuss the topic.

Extended Deadline (20th of July), to participate or present work at IMOL (Workshop on Intrinsically motivated Open-ended Learning). 8th to 10th of September, at @herts.ac.uk. Free registration.

imol2025.github.io

Please share. Below our invited speaker lineup.

If you are interested in the research topic, you can also check out the IMOL community itself:

www.imol-community.org

b.) submit an extended abstract, up to two pages long. This can be about past, ongoing, completed or planned work, and will receive review by the organizers (not a peer reviewed publication). If accepted, this will results in a chance to present a poster at IMOL, or in some cases, a selected talk.

a.) submit a letter of motivation until the deadline - can be quite short - so we can plan attendance numbers.

If you are interested in this *free* workshop and want to attend, then you should know that we are just about to extend the deadline to the 20th of July, 2025. If you want to attend, there are basically two options:

Here are some of our invited speakers for the workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning at the University of Hertfordshire, 8-10 September, 2025. @herts.ac.uk #IMOL #AI #Herts

imol2025.github.io

Two weeks left to register (for free) for the stand-alone workshop on intrinsically motivated open-ended learning (IMOL) @herts.ac.uk, 8. to 10. of Sept. 2025, UK.

Details on website:
imol2025.github.io

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#AI #IntrinsicMotivation

Excited to join the project. This is a great opportunity if you want to work with Christian.

1/4 Join us and the Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group @aalto.fi / Finland to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) as PhD (4y) or postdoc (2y). Job ad w project description and application instructions: bit.ly/4jyNLGv. We're looking forward to learning about you!

1/3 Out now: new paper on people's perception of AI (robot) creativity! Core finding: we attribute more creativity to a creative act if people not only see the final artwork, but also its creation process & the robot making it. Video: vimeo.com/1073134853 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1145/3711...

Interested in working on (computational) intrinsic motivation x design x architecture? A really cool PhD project coming up - UK residents only and supervised by @christophsalge.bsky.social! Ah, and I'll be co-supervising :) All info below - many opportunities to fit in your profile and ideas.

The project is co-supervised by Luigi Pintacuda and @creativeendvs.bsky.social Christian Guckelsberger.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Details of the proposed topic: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Application Details: www.herts.ac.uk/research/cen...

Do you want to do a Phd at @herts.ac.uk with me in the topic of: Changing the Environment with Intrinsically Motivated Computational Creativity?

Then apply for a fully funded Phd position with our Centre for Future Societies, reference ADS4.

Deadline: 26. May, 2025
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Interesting - and then I got to this part: ''But we're getting way ahead of ourselves here and way into the weeds of this approach, into criticisms that are probably only interesting to about a dozen people in the entire world.''

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no, tell me your secrets @mtrc.bsky.social

Just read Mike Cook's piece on Muse Game AI generation.

www.possibilityspace.org/blog-before-...