Research Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and his team are studying autotelic curiosity, that marvelous ability to self-generate and self-select our own learning objectives, goals or games. They design robots to l...

Generative AI (GenAI) tools allow for effortless task completion, potentially fostering cognitive and metacognitive laziness in students. While surveys indicate widespread GenAI use among students as ...

Are we too human to understand LLMs? 🤔 This question threads through Nicolas Yax's outstanding PhD 💡, which he brilliantly defended a few days ago (co-supervised with the great Stefano Palminteri) H...

Developmental Systems, a Blog of the Flowers Lab

Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément Moulin-Frier, Bert Wang-Chak ChanInria Flowers and Google Deepmind

Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964, has since been exp...

As large language models (LLMs) start interacting with each other and generating an increasing amount of text online, it becomes crucial to better understand how information is transformed as it passe...