In dynamic environments, the rapid obsolescence of pre-existing environmental knowledge creates a gap between an agent's internal model and the evolving reality of its operational context. This disparity between prior and updated environmental valuations fundamentally limits the effectiveness of autonomous decision-making. To bridge this gap, the contextual bias of human domain stakeholders, who naturally accumulate insights through direct, real-time observation, becomes indispensable. However, translating their nuanced, and context-rich input into actionable intelligence for autonomous systems remains an open challenge. To address this, we propose LUCIFER (Language Understanding and Context-Infused Framework for Exploration and Behavior Refinement), a domain-agnostic framework that integrates a hierarchical decision-making architecture with reinforcement learning (RL) and large language models (LLMs) into a unified system. This architecture mirrors how humans decompose complex tasks, enabling a high-level planner to coordinate specialised sub-agents, each focused on distinct objectives and temporally interdependent actions. Unlike traditional applications where LLMs are limited to single role, LUCIFER integrates them in two synergistic roles: as context extractors, structuring verbal stakeholder input into domain-aware representations that influence decision-making through an attention space mechanism aligning LLM-derived insights with the agent's learning process, and as zero-shot exploration facilitators guiding the agent's action selection process during exploration. We benchmark various LLMs in both roles and demonstrate that LUCIFER improves exploration efficiency and decision quality, outperforming flat, goal-conditioned policies. Our findings show the potential of context-driven decision-making, where autonomous systems leverage human contextual knowledge for operational success.

Chilling words in the Bible's Book of Revelation seem to describe events in the early Christian world - but are they actually predicting a nuclear explosion during a future world war? 'Something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea… a third of the living creatures in the sea died,' the ancient text reads. The Book of Revelation (written towards the end of the first century AD) is packed with imagery which could describe modern weapons technologies such as helicopter or drone fleets and even robot soldiers, explained Jared Brock, author of'A Devil Named Lucifer.' Brock said that it's very easy to read Revelation and map the fall of previous empires onto it, such as the Roman Empire or the British Empire. However, the author wonders if it could be describing the future fall of the United States instead. Brock studied scripture intently as part of the research for his book - and found echoes of recent world events in the Book of Revelation and throughout the Bible.

Melinda Snodgrass is the novelist and screenwriter best known for her classic Star Trek: The Next Generation script "The Measure of a Man." Her latest novel, Lucifer's War, pits an unlikely band of heroes against a horde of Lovecraftian monsters that have been spreading fear and ignorance throughout human history. "It's unbelievable now, the kind of nonsense people are accepting, that's being pushed on them by social media," Snodgrass says in Episode 529 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "I really wanted to make a stand for science and rationality, as opposed to magic and superstition." The book is set in Snodgrass' home state of New Mexico, a place where science and superstition clash in a particularly striking way. "It's a very weird place, where you have Los Alamos laboratory, Sandia laboratories, high-tech, high-energy centers," Snodgrass says, "Some of the finest scientific minds in the world come here to lecture and study and commune with each other, and then on the other side you have people who will balance your aura and sell you a crystal to deal with your cancer."

Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) is in danger of being taken down "Lucifer" Season 2 big bad, Dr. Jacob Carlisle (Tim DeKay). While speaking with TV Line, co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich confirmed that Lucifer's encounter with Dr. Carlisle will have a huge and negative impact to one of the people that the lead character cares about. By the looks of it, Chloe's (Lauren German) fate is on the line. "We're doing something that we haven't done before, which is we're having a three-episode procedural arc launching Jan. 16. So, in addition to mythology and really digging into Lucifer, Chloe and'Will They/Won't They,' we have one Big Bad guy," she said.