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I recently defended my Ph.D. thesis entitled "Towards Social Autotelic Artificial Agents - Formation and Exploitation of Cultural Conventions in Autonomous Embodied Artificial Agents".
Links: [Manuscript] [Presentation] [Slides] - I'm on the job market! I'm looking for research scientist, postdoc and researcher positions
Short Bio
I am an AI researcher holding a doctorate from the University of Bordeaux and Inria, where I conducted research in Developmental AI under the guidance of Clément Moulin-Frier and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer. Specifically, I explored how artificial agents can establish and leverage cultural conventions within Reinforcement Learning setups
Before pursuing my Ph.D., I worked on Natural Language Processing at PNB Paribas' innovation lab in New York. My academic background includes MSc degrees in machine learning from ISAE-Supaero and mechanical engineering from EPFL.
I am passionate about exploring the dynamic connections between language, culture, and AI. My professional goal is centered on applying my AI expertise to address real-world challenges, serving as a bridge between cutting-edge technology and societal needs.
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Summary: Humans have an outstanding ability to teach and learn form each other without relying on pre-established communication protocol (not even expressing rewards). Could machine do the same? In this blog post we propose a new interactive learning paradigm to investigate this question.
Summary: This blog post presents a supra-communicative view of language and advocates for the use of language as a cognitive tool to organize the cognitive development of intrinsically motivated artificial agents. We go over studies revealing the cognitive functions of language in humans, cover similar uses of language in the design of artificial agents and advocate for the pursuit of Vygotskian embodied agents - artificial agents that leverage language as a cognitive tool to structure their continuous experience, form abstract representations, reason, imagine creative goals, plan towards them and simulate future possibilities.