Christoffer Holmgård: AI for Video Games
The Gradient: Perspectives on AI · Andrey Kurenkov
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Show Notes
In episode 76 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Dr Christoffer Holmgård
Dr. Holmgård is a co-founder and the CEO of Modl.ai, which is building AI Engine for game development. Before starting the company, Christoffer was director of the indie game studio Die Gute Fabrik (which is German for "The Good Factory"), and has also done extensive research as an assistant professor in AI and Machine Learning for Games at Northeastern University.
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Outline:
(00:00) Intro(01:30) History with video games (06:30) History with AI(09:40) Modeling stress responses in virtual environments(13:30) Play style personas from empirical data(17:15) Automating video game testing(21:00) Video game development(28:15) modl.ai(33:45) Automated playtesting with procedural personas through MCTS with evolved heuristics(35:40) Thoughts on recent AI progress(40:50) RL for game testing(44:40) AI in Minecraft(47:50) Impact of AI on video game development(01:00:00) Ethics of Gen AI (01:06:20) Hobbies / Interests (01:08:30) Outro
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