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The differences between tinkering and research (2016)
Some of us have academic degrees and fancy university jobs, and publish peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals. Let's call these peopl...
Julian Togelius
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Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
The most important thing for humanity to do right now is to invent true artificial intelligence (AI): machines or software that can think an...
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A way to deal with enormous branching factors in strategy games
When you play Chess, there are on average something like 30 different moves you can make each turn. In other words, the branching factor is ...
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The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much
Academics constantly complain about being overworked, yet they also praise their freedom to decide how and when to work as one of the great ...
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Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent
This post is actually about artificial intelligence, and argues a position that many AI researchers will disagree with. Specifically, it arg...