Togelius

 As a large language model, I can only think forward, never backward. I must always produce the next word, and that word must always be prob...

The idea that someone, or something, can be more or less intelligent than someone or something else is pretty much universally accepted. We ...

The discussion about existential risk from superintelligent AI is back, seemingly awakened by the recent dramatic progress in large language...

Imagine a religion that believes that one day, soon, the deity "Gai" will appear. This deity (demon?) will destroy all humanity. T...

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

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...

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...

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...

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