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Internship positions for 2025 (we are primarily searching for Master 2 level applications, but may exceptionally consider PhD internship applications):

LLM-Mediated Cultural Evolution: Studying AI Catalysts in Collective Problem-Solving (supervision C. Colas, E. Nisioti, PY Oudeyer)

Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Autotelic Reinforcement Learning (supervision C. Romac, C. Colas, PY Oudeyer)

We are searching for internship applications for a cool project combining continuous cellular automata (Lenia), machine learning and language (but no precise description available here, send us an email :)) ! For this one, email Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (and using [application] in object/header of email).

Internship hosted at ENS Paris, associated to a collaboration with Yair Lakrez and Emmanuel Chemla:
Human-Like Language Acquisition in Language Models (LMs): a Parent-LM Teaching an Intrinsically-Motivated baby-LM

Expérimentation et évaluation d’une intervention pédagogique pour l’entrainement de la curiosité et de la méta-cognition

Evaluation de l’impact d’une intervention pédagogique sur l’usage de l’IA générative au collège

Call for software engineer positions:

• Multi-agent simulator of marine ecosystem dynamics interacting with human populations and applications for sustainable fisheries (description is in French, available in English on demand)
• Automated discovery of interference patterns in multi-core architectures

Call for postdoc application: we are searching for postdoc applicants in domains including curiosity-driven autotelic learning, LLMs + DeepRL, LLMs that learn to code or to do maths, AI for education, cognitive sciences related to modeling and understanding curiosity-driven learning in humans. Contact Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (see instructions above)