Blog

Here is a collection of blog posts and notes in English and French, some of which are published on the “Developmental Systems” blog of the Flowers AI & CogSci Lab.

English

The Phylogenetics of Artifacts – A deep dive into the evolution of cultural objects, artificial life forms and language models (Feb. 2026), with Nicolas Yax and Stefano Palminteri

Can AIs understand our world? Functionally grounding LLMs in interactive environments (May 2025), with Clément Romac and Thomas Carta

Generative AI as cultural transmission technology: Challenges and opportunities for the education of future citizens (April 2025)
Oudeyer, P-Y. (2025) Generative AI as cultural transmission technology: Challenges and opportunities for the education of future citizens, Consensus Conference “New Knowledge and New Skills for Young People” of Cnesco, Oct. 2024.1 This text was written for non specialist audiences in the domain of education. pdf available here.

Designing artificial conversational agents to train children’s curiosity during learning, a proof of concept through the Kids Ask project (Oct. 2022), with Rania Abdelghani, Edith Law and Hélène Sauzéon

Watching artificial intelligence through the lens of cognitive science methodologies (July 2022), with Masataka Sawayama and Yoan Lemesle

Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata (2022), with Gauthier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry, Bert Chan and Clément Moulin-Frier

Intelligent behavior depends on the ecological niche: Scaling up AI to human-like intelligence in socio-cultural environments (Oct. 2021) with Manfred Eppe

Language as a Cognitive Tool: Dall-E, Humans and Vygotskian RL Agents (March 2021), with Cedric Colas, Tristan Karch, Clément Moulin-Frier and Olivier Sigaud

Français