I’ve co-authored a book with Tony Veale about Twitterbots and Computational Creativity, and it’s out really very soon, and you can order it online here! This is a quick post to fill you in on…
OpenAI & DOTA 2: Game Is Hard
This is part of a series about OpenAI’s attempt to build an AI that can play a full game of DOTA 2 against humans. Earlier in the year I wrote about OpenAI’s initial announcement. Last…
Future Funding
Here’s the big news: I’ve been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and starting in November 2018 I’ll be joining Queen Mary University in London to start five years of research…
Good Luck, Have Fun
I’m in Salamanca, Spain this week to attend the International Conference on Computational Creativity, and even though I haven’t slept in 30 hours, Open AI dropped a big piece of news today about their DOTA…
ANGELINA @ EGX Rezzed
Hey everyone! It’s been quiet here for a couple of months, but I’ve been working hard on some really exciting things, and I can now announce what the first of those is:Â ANGELINA will be designing…
Scientific Victory
Last week a few games sites covered the fact that the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), a lab which investigates safety issues associated with things like artificial intelligence, had released a…
Waking Up From Electric Dreams
Two years ago I visited Dagstuhl, a research center in Germany, for a week of game AI research. I was writing Electric Dreams at the time for Rock, Paper, Shotgun; a series about games, AI…
Going Live
I was lucky enough to be a guest on the Checkpoints podcast this month! I talked about my origin story growing up watching Bad Influence! on the TV and playing Zool on the Amiga. I…
Supervised Learning – House Of Lords & AI
Yesterday the House Of Lords – one of the two houses in the British parliament – gathered a Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to meet with a number of academics and journalists and ask them…
Good Game, Go Next
Last week was The International 2017, the biggest date in the DOTA 2 calendar where the world’s top teams compete in the complex and challenging MOBA for a prize pool totalling over $24m. In between…