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Refreshing take from my NYU colleague on AI's expected impact on game development: "
“It is bullshit. You need to throw it out or fix it manually.”
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New personal goal: say "fuck" or "fucking" and get a reputable magazine to print it.
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I have comments. Spicy comments.
wired.com/story/generati
I really like it when journalists print my spicy comments rather than the mild ones.
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Just used the block function for maybe the first time ever. It felt good. Internet is better without certain besserwissers.
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My mobile phone provide just called me to advertise an health insurance plan. I couldn't tell whether it was an actual person or a computer program calling me. Come to think of it, I'm not sure who called me at all. Is this what it's like to live in the future?
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We proudly announce: IEEE Conference on Games 2023 in Boston! CoG is the premier technical games research conference, including but certainly not limited to AI in games. Submission is open for full papers, but also for competitions and tutorials.
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IEEE CoG 2023 will be in Boston, hosted by Northeastern University, on 21-24 August!
If you seek to publish your research on technical, scientific, & engineering work on video/board/other games, check the call below.
Full paper deadline: 17 March!
CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1BX_BtZ
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We are extending the deadline for the 2023 PCG workshop at to February 10th, 2023!
Updated dates and all details are on pcgworkshop.com
Please share with interested parties. You now have some extra time to get your cool PCG work sorted out. 💪
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Another thing I should probably mention is that while I have been known to be fairly critical of certain views in the AGI discussion, as well as the concept of AGI itself, I will aim for a balanced yet critical discussion of things like superintelligence/intelligence explosion.
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Also: in April, I will start sending out drafts to trusted readers and domain experts for comments. Stay tuned.
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Obviously, I already have a plan, and a good chunk of the book written. But I am very interested in hearing what _you_ think should go into such a book. Remember: it's a short book, assuming no technical knowledge from the reader.
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I'm excited to report that I'm writing a short book on Artificial General Intelligence to be published by . It will go into their Essential Knowledge Series so I will write for a general audience. This is your chance to influence me: which topics must I include?
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The PCG workshop is back! I am part of the organizers this year and we are very excited to have you present and discuss research during this year!
If you have been working on something cool related to PCG, you shouldn’t miss this opportunity to discuss and showcase!
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The submissions to FDG 2023 PCG Workshops are open!
If you are working on Procedural Content Generation, consider submitting to our Workshop!
PCG 2023 will be hybrid, both in Lisbon, Portugal and on Zoom.
pcgworkshop.com
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call for abstracts for a conference on the philosophy of deep learning, at NYU march 24-26. co-organized by (columbia), , and me, with many excellent speakers. deadline jan 22.
wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/
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For pilots, it seems that this is not going to change anytime soon. The technology for pilotless flights in good conditions has been there for a long time, and the technology for safe pilotless in all conditions might never be there.
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Will most jobs be like this in the future?
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As far as I understand it, existing technology can handle every part of a flight, under normal conditions. Pilots are needed:
* For context and communication
* For contingency, when things are not normal
* Because no-one wants to fly in a plane without a pilot
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In that timeline, the same advances in AI would have been made by hundreds of academic research labs in a distributed, piecemeal fashion without bombastic press releases. That would have been a better timeline.
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I think the timeline in which none of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic exist is in a much worse position than our current timeline
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I think all of us would benefit from a greater appreciation of how complex our society actually is. This can be had by, for example, talking to people in a wide range of roles and jobs. Not just AI researchers.
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It’s fine and normal to not know much about what other people do. I don’t know much about what radiologists, truck drivers, chefs, nurses, and accountants actually do either. I’d love to hear *from them* which parts of their jobs would be easy or hard to automate.
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The ease with which some people think other’s jobs (rarely their own) will be replaced by AI systems usually say more about how little these people know about, or respect, the jobs which they say will be replaced.
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The submissions to FDG 2023 PCG Workshops are open!
If you are working on Procedural Content Generation, consider submitting to our Workshop!
PCG 2023 will be hybrid, both in Lisbon, Portugal and on Zoom.
🔗 pcgworkshop.com
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'Fictional games' are games that exclusively exist as elements of fictional worlds. It is also the title of my latest book with !
>> bloomsbury.com/us/fictional-g <<
'Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play' is OUT TODAY with !
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Can someone train a large #Diffusion model exclusively on frames taken from films, and release it openly? There are plenty of MP4 files on BitTorrent that are Fair Use ;-)
It'd be interesting to see what legal arguments the #MPAA comes up with to have copies / code taken down...
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Are LLM-powered NPCs unreliable narrators? And other questions.
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#Tandon #computerscience & #engineering researcher @togelius shares his expertise on developments of #videogames based on #opensouce #languagemodels with @keefstuart of @GamesRadar #NYUTandonMade
bit.ly/3GSd1Yc
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Current approaches for fixing bias in large language models
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I've found the killer app of large language models.
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Sure, there's always room for improvement. Constructive criticism is welcome. We could get better at researching and educating, and we could get a whole lot cheaper.
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US universities are arguably the best assets the country has. They're how all the smart people that keep the country innovating (and me) get here. They're where most innovative companies start. They're what the world looks up to.
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Sorry, I try to avoid cheap dunks on people, but the peculiar US tendency to talk shit about universities really annoys me. Okay, you didn't like college and dropped out, only to build a business where you employ tons of highly educated people. Maybe the problem was not college?
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Go back and finish your degree and then I'll listen to your opinion on colleges
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colleges prioritized making people feel perfectly safe over everything else and produced a generation afraid to fail, and thus afraid to take risk, and thus on pace to accomplish extremely little
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Come join us!
Pros:
* Top research team
* Real impact on video games
* Pushing the boundary og game AI by creating behavior foundation models
Cons:
* You have to publish papers AND contribute to AI used by AAA games
* No skiing in Malta, in fact barely any winter at all
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Wish to experience a top-tier research environment as a game AI industrial postdoc? Join us in @modl_ai and @InDigitalGames 
and be part of our research team (incl. @togelius, @risi, @nojustesen) that develops the next gen AI Game Engine. Apply by Jan-25
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As AI tools have quickly become a controversial topic in the game industry, modl aims to make AI tools that support developers, not supplant them. Get more details here:
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Everyone are writing about LLMs so I did too. (It became longer than I expected. and also not long enough.)
gist.github.com/yoavg/59d17460
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It's almost like the publishing industry is onto something with this thing they call "editors".
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Join us and be part of a large research team (incl. , , among many) that builds the next generation of AI algorithms that play, feel, and design games!
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Come and work with us! If you wish to join our AI research group at the we have a number of research posts (RAs, PhDs, Postdocs) open currently! Now, why AI and Games in Malta? Here is my take: lnkd.in/d76N4pir
Apply by Jan 31👇
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