AI, Search, & Games Researcher. AAAI Fellow, Amii Fellow, CIFAR chair. Univ. Alberta. Consultant. ✞
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined January 2010
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University of Alberta invites English-speaking adults (18+) to join The Witness Editor User Study (Pro00156658). Design 2 levels online (~40 min; no compensation). Details: webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~junw…
We are looking for people to help evaluate tools that assist users in designing puzzles for The Witness! Check out the official link below.
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We are very happy to announce the list of newly elected AAAI Fellows for 2026. AAAI will celebrate the newly elected Fellows at the awards ceremony during AAAI-26. Congratulations to all the 2026 Fellows for this well-deserved honor!
Bo An
Elias Bareinboim
Roman Barták
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Sanmay Das
Alan Fern
Irwin King
Yan Liu
Nathan Sturtevant
Qi Tian
Francesca Toni
Ingmar Weber
Learn more: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awa…
I'm honored to join this list of distinguished researchers:
aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awa…
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Learn more about U of A professor Nathan Sturtevant's research.
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In this new episode of "Meet the Researcher," Amii Fellow and Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair Nathan Sturtevant talks about his research and shares his thoughts on combining classic AI techniques, heuristic search, and game theory with LLMs. Watch: hubs.la/Q03Fn6qG0
Finishes by talking about governance, which makes sense. First audience question is "what about AI being too dumb, not too smart." A good question - he defers to the potential future AI that will be super-intelligent.
He proposes an AI oracle that can answer queries of the form P(statement is true | context). This is a way of avoiding the risks of a system deceiving us - if it can get these probabilities correct. Interesting to think about what you could build with such a tool.
Listening to Bengio at #IJCAI25. While I agree with the risks of AI, he seems to be worried about future AI as an actor with malicious goals and intentions. I'm far more worried about what people do with AI than what AI does on its own.
My students have created some excellent games this term. One example I particularly enjoyed:
venetiaz.itch.io/petrichor
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Jasper wildfire damage visualized through satellite imagery from a month ago and now.
Dark green denotes dense vegetation, white denotes almost none.
(details in the thread)
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The Seventeenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024) from June 6-8, 2024 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Proceedings are now available here: bit.ly/3wRQBnR
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Kick-start of the ICAPS 2024 Summer School: with talks by Sarah Keren and Nathan Sturtevant. Hard work by the summer school organisers (Sarah Keren, Jane Jean Kiam, Pascal Bercher) and teaching assistants (Guy Azran, Yuval Goshen) is paying off!
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The ICAPS 2024 Program Overview is now live - icaps24.icaps-conference.org…
The late registration deadline is fast approaching. If you have not already, please register soon as rooms are in short supply.
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x-posting from Linkedin -- Tommy Thompson makes the best videos about AI in videogames.
Tommy approached me about a FEAR retrospective episode to help celebrate the @AIandGames youtube channel turning 10 years old. One of his questions was why FEAR is relevant almost 20 years later. I think a big part of that is due to Tommy making such great videos about it, keeping the interest alive!
I'm grateful that AI & Games has spotlighted the work, in several videos over the years, and it was a lot of fun to reminisce on this video with Tommy. Tommy has a unique insider perspective, having established himself as the go-to guy for Game AI consulting. I am excited to see how he connects the dots from FEAR to @bitpartai, in a follow up video he and I are working on.
I recommend subscribing to @AIandGames to get informed perspectives on game AI, complemented with Tommy's delightful Scottish brogue.
🧟♀️ NEW VIDEO🧟♀️
To celebrate 10 years of AI and Games, I wanted to go back to where it all began.
The F.E.A.R. Retrospective: ~1 hour deep-dive into the making of the game as I interview Jeff Orkin @jorkin - F.E.A.R.'s AI programmer.
Live on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=3Of2NtTY…