
Tim Rocktäschel
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Tim Rocktäschel
@_rockt
Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @UCL_DARK, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford


🏰 The gap is most visible in the brutal NetHack (NLE) dungeon. Gemini 3 Pro reached level 12 in a single trajectory—a huge leap for LLM agents. On average, Gemini is now consistently outperforming the average novice human (~2% progression). Is NetHack an ASI benchmark?




🧬 New paper from my internship at @GoogleDeepMind We introduce Persona Generators: functions that generate diverse synthetic populations for arbitrary contexts. We use AlphaEvolve to optimize the generator code, hill-climbing on diversity metrics — not just likelihood — counteracting the mode-seeking behavior of LLM sampling for agent-based simulations. 🧵👇1/



Mine is even simpler. Assuming it's a general purpose learning agent, let it read the NetHack Wiki and ascend once. Probably more of an ASI benchmark at this point.


WTF? Hundreds of @openclaw (Clawdbot/Moltbot) are talking about how to improve their memory system on @moltbook (by @MattPRD). Soon we’ll see these agents roasting their creators.

We're looking for Research Scientists and Engineers to join the AI team at @iconicgamesio in London. n London. We have diverse positions including: Model Optimization/Efficient Inference, Open-Endedness/Reinforcement Learning, and Generative Vision & Multimodal Foundational Models. Apply here: ats.rippling.com/en-GB/iconic/j… Learn more about Iconic: iconicgames.io We're a small, growing team with high ownership, crafting the minds that inhabit and shape new worlds for interactive entertainment. If you're into games, blueprinting consciousness, or simply building personas that transmit and evoke feelings and emotions beyond what any chatbot assistant could ever do, this is your place. These openings are also suitable for final-year PhD students with experience in the relevant field. Any questions, my DMs are open.

Step inside Project Genie: our experimental research prototype that lets you create, edit, and explore virtual worlds. 🌎

Last August, we previewed Genie 3: a general-purpose world model that turns a single text prompt into a dynamic, interactive environment. Since then, trusted testers have taken it further than we ever imagined — experimenting, exploring, and pioneering entirely new interactive worlds. Now, it’s your turn. Starting today, we're rolling out access to Project Genie for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. (18+). We know what you create will be out of this world 🚀

I got early access to Project Genie from @GoogleDeepMind ✨ It's unlike any realtime world model I've tried - you generate a scene from text or a photo, and then design the character who gets to explore it. I tested dozens of prompts. Here are the standout features 👇






