Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · 15d

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

Feel free to share.

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...

arxiv.org

1 5

Reposted by Christoph Salge

Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 17d

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...

1 7 22

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

#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...

www.linkedin.com

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

#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...

www.linkedin.com

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

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...

www.linkedin.com

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

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...

share.google

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Reposted by Christoph Salge

Adrian Brightmoore / The World Foundry @theworldfoundry.com · Aug 31

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

Winner Presentation of the 2025 GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft.

YouTube video by Christoph Salge

www.youtube.com

1 2

Reposted by Christoph Salge

GDMC AI Settlement Generation Competition @gendesignmc.bsky.social · Aug 29

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?...

Winner Presentation of the 2025 GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft.

YouTube video by Christoph Salge

youtu.be

1 8 9

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

imol2025.github.io/pages/speake...

Speakers

Michael Levin Tufts University Tim Rocktäschel University College London / DeepMind Michael Herrmann University of Edinburgh Christian Guckelsberger Aalto University Jakob Foerster University of Oxfor...

imol2025.github.io

1 3

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 13

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.

1 1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 13

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.

1 1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

www.imol-community.org

Welcome to the IMOL Community

Join us at the IMOL Conference 2025 in Hertfordshire! Dates: 8-10 September. More info on the conference's website. See the call for paper. Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning IMOL first launc...

www.imol-community.org

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.

1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 11

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:

1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

1

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Please share with interested parties.
#AI #IntrinsicMotivation

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · Jun 3

3/4 You can work w/travel to our fantastic collaborators Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social (Washington U./DeepMind), Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc (Imperial College), Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social & Daniel Polani (UH), & Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social (NYU)!

Reposted by Christoph Salge

Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · Jun 3

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!

Doctoral Researcher and Postdoc positions to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) | Aalto University

The Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group at the Dept. of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland is looking for 1 Doctoral Researcher (2+2 years) and 1 Postdoc (2 years) to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM)

bit.ly

1 4 10

Reposted by Christoph Salge

Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · Apr 8

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...

1 5 10

Reposted by Christoph Salge

Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · Apr 28

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.

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Apr 25

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
Details below. Please share.

4 2

Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · Apr 25

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.