Monday, August 08, 2022

Apology for Video Games Research

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I just finished reading this excellent history of early digital computing , disguised as a biography of computing researcher and visionary J...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

Brief statement of research vision

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I thought I would try to very briefly state the research vision that has in some incarnation animated me since I started doing research almo...
Friday, May 13, 2022

We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players?

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Aren't we done with games yet? Some would say that while games were useful for AI research for a while, our algorithms have mastered the...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Rethinking large conferences

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As the end of the pandemic draws near, one of the many things I am excited about is to be able to go to physical conferences again. A year o...
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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Copernican revolutions of the mind

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When Copernicus explained how the earth revolves around the sun rather than the other way around, he figuratively dethroned humanity. Earth,...
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Friday, October 30, 2020

How many AGIs can dance on the head of a pin?

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It is a common trope that we might one day develop artificial intelligence that is so smart that it starts improving itself. The AI thus bec...
Monday, August 03, 2020

A very short history of some times we solved AI

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1956: Logic Theorist . Arguably, pure mathematics is the crowning achievement of human thought. Now we have a machine that can prove new mat...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018

CEC vs GECCO

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I've been to both the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and IEEE Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) m...