AI researcher and indie game developer Kristin Siu talks about the real-time scheduling technology that is driving the indie game Elsinore. The premise is that you’re playing Ophelia, a minor character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and she has abili

#4: Interactive Storytelling Pioneer Michael Mateas on Balancing Authorial Control with Generative AI

Feb 11th, 2018 51m 35s

Michael Mateas is a co-director of UC Santa Cruz’s Expressive Intelligence Studio, which explores the balance between storytelling authored by humans and possibility spaces generated by AI technologies. The program emphasizes creating gaming ex

#3: Hard Problems in AI: Pronoun Disambiguation, Knowledge Representation, & Handling Noisy Data

Feb 10th, 2018 49m 13s

AI researcher Leora Morgenstern talks about some hard problems in AI including pronoun disambiguation, knowledge representation, and creating AI solutions in the enterprise with incomplete data. She started her career in academia, but then real

#2: Modeling Social Dynamics in Gaming with Ben Samuel

Feb 9th, 2018 46m 9s

Ben Samuel talks about his “social physics” engine that drives the social dynamics within his indie game Prom Week where you’re able to guide interactions between high school students in a social simulation during the week leading up to prom. T

#1: The Landscape of Artificial Intelligence with Rao Kambhampati

Jan 4th, 2018 50m 20s

AAAI President Rao Kambhampati provides an overview of the landscape of artificial intelligence. Kambhampati was the general chair for 2016 International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence, which is the oldest running AI conference th

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