Tim Rocktäschel’s keynote talk at #ICLR2025 about Open-Endedness and AI. “Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.” “Basically almost everybody in my lab at UCL and at DeepMind have read this book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned.”
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Learning Algorithms Discover Randomization Benefits at ICLR2025
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At 3PM today, Seijin Kobayashi & Johannes von Oswald will be at the #ICLR2025 Google booth to address the question, "Can learning algorithms discover when randomization is beneficial?" https://
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ProtNLM: Real-Time Protein Annotation with AI Models
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Predicting protein annotations without a wet lab experiment is challenging. Today at 10AM, the #ICLR2025 Google booth will host a real-time demo of ProtNLM, a model developed together with EMBL-EBI to annotate proteins with short textual descriptions. https://
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PyTorch Moves IO to TorchCodec for Better Efficiency
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Telecom Companies Transform Into AI-Powered Intelligent Grids
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📡 Telecom companies are evolving into #AI-powered grids that think, adapt, and solve.
— NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) 25 avril 2025
This includes:
🤖 Agentic AI
🏭 Sovereign AI factories
📶 AI-RAN
🎥 Watch the full video: https://t.co/6mb6IlISq1 pic.twitter.com/JdlX44BIKhTelecom companies are evolving into #AI-powered grids that think, adapt, and solve. This includes: Agentic AI Sovereign AI factories AI-RAN Watch the full video: https://
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Meta’s Token-Shuffle Advances Autoregressive Image Generation
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Even if Yann LeCun isn’t a fan of autoregressive models, Meta’s still pushing out some seriously impressive research using them.
Token-Shuffle: Towards High-Resolution Image Generation with Autoregressive Models
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Developer Competition: Build AI Breakthroughs and Climb Leaderboard
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There's still time to engage! Connect with other devs Climb the leaderboard Earn credits + serious bragging rights Then, go create the next AI breakthrough. We’re watching. Jump in
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Volume 281: AAAI Bridge Program on AI for Medicine and Healthcare Published
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Volume 281 https://
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Tim Rocktäschel on Open-Endedness at ICLR2025
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Join Tim Rocktäschel tomorrow at 2PM in Hall 1 Apex at #ICLR2025 for a Keynote on Open-Endedness, a research paradigm focused on systems that generate endless sequences of novel but learnable artifacts, hinting at a future where AI drives its own discoveries.