✨ Huge thanks to my excellent collaborators for never giving up — perseverance pays off! What a fantastic way to wrap up @IgluContest: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment. Grateful for this journey! 🚀💬 Online evaluation remains a significant open challenge for agentic systems! #NeurIPS #AI #HumanAIInteraction iglu-contest.net/

Our paper addresses the challenges of developing interactive AI agents capable of understanding and executing grounded natural language instructions through @IgluContest, which timely demonstrates the importance of testing AI agents in dynamic environments with real users! When we proposed this idea 3.5 years ago, it felt so far ahead! Now, progress is evident, but we still need to take the final steps toward proper realistic evaluation that leads to groundbreaking discoveries. A big thank you to all the collaborators who have been part of this amazing journey over the past years, pushing the frontiers of AI research in various institutions and directions now! One important lesson I’ve learned is that experiments might fail, ideas might not work, and papers might be rejected—but focus on the growth of the people you are working with. At the end of the day, it’s all about the people! @NegarEmpr @shremoha @artemZholus Andrea Tupini Yuxuan Sun @Cote_Marc and many others arxiv.org/abs/2407.08898