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Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social · 17h

I got that bit of info from Ben Cousins, and have mentioned it several times. Others have referenced it too, see www.researchgate.net/figure/Jumpi... which probably will link to his original source.

Fig. 3. Jumping times in 3rd person action games – adapted from Cousins...

Download scientific diagram | Jumping times in 3rd person action games – adapted from Cousins [2005]. from publication: Toward an understanding of flow in video games | In the domain of computer game...

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I’m naive but I’m hopeful that we can actually fight against the notion of GenAI/LLMs = AI. AI has been a broad category of technical approaches since the 1950‘s and I think redrawing the borders to only mean a specific subset of approaches is only in the interest of VC/tech ghouls.

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had the same two books on my nightstand for months with very little progress for the same reason. I’m banking on a long flight at this point.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

Really excited to get back to @aiide.bsky.social this year and support one of our rising stars making her conference debut!

One of the things that's been eye opening in ten years post-academia is how we deliver actual value rather than intellectual curiosity. Going to enjoy talking further on this!

AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 2d

AIIDE 2025 is fast approaching and it’s time to start announcing this year’s keynote speakers! First up are Dr. Luke Dicken and Nadine Perez from Take-Two Interactive. In this session the Take-Two AI team will discuss how to put theory into practice.

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 2d

We'll be announcing the AIIDE'25 keynotes in the next couple of weeks and our first one to announce is this really exciting look at applying research work in industry from @luked.bsky.social and Nadine Perez!

AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 2d

AIIDE 2025 is fast approaching and it’s time to start announcing this year’s keynote speakers! First up are Dr. Luke Dicken and Nadine Perez from Take-Two Interactive. In this session the Take-Two AI team will discuss how to put theory into practice.

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 2d

AIIDE 2025 is fast approaching and it’s time to start announcing this year’s keynote speakers! First up are Dr. Luke Dicken and Nadine Perez from Take-Two Interactive. In this session the Take-Two AI team will discuss how to put theory into practice.

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 2d

No one before has ever even considered burning your own chess pieces for fuel!

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 2d

So even before any legal action this has already been massively expensive for OpenAI.

Meaning that OpenAI, already hemorrhaging money, made the “clever” move to make a video generation social media site to hemorrhage money even faster.

copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...

Sora, Not Sorry: OpenAI Backtracks on Opt-Out Copyright Policy

OpenAI, facing backlash, will now let rightsholders decide whether their characters appear in Sora 2, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 5d

One week left to register (at the cheapest rate) for the best game AI research conference around.

AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 5d

📢 One week left! Early bird registration rates are available until October 10th. Early registration is cheaper and helps us get things organized 👾

sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

AIIDE 2025 - Registration

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 4d

Happy (nearly? belated?) birthday!

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 5d

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 5d

One week left to register (at the cheapest rate) for the best game AI research conference around.

AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 5d

📢 One week left! Early bird registration rates are available until October 10th. Early registration is cheaper and helps us get things organized 👾

sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

AIIDE 2025 - Registration

sites.google.com

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 5d

📢 One week left! Early bird registration rates are available until October 10th. Early registration is cheaper and helps us get things organized 👾

sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

AIIDE 2025 - Registration

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 7d

*seem to, gah

And obviously this is me observing industry dynamics while shaking my head sadly so everyone knows I don’t approve

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 7d

Haha no worries, but I appreciate the pre-apology!

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 7d

Bunch of commenters don’t see to understand that Tencent came in to prop up Ubisoft and that this was the deal they got for that.

After being torn apart by private equity, popular EA studios will probably get similar deals, assuming this pays dividends for Tencent.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7d

Eurogamer: Ubisoft and Tencent announce new subsidiary, Vantage Studios, to lead development for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six franchises

www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-and-...

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 8d

thanks for enjoying the show! @brendanmcleod.com and I do talk about some of the different orderings in later episodes but not that specific one. Thanks for bringing it up! I wasn’t previous familiar. Kind of six of one-y with some notable variations.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 8d

“September 30th is meant to begin a season of reflection and re-assessment, not a once and done but a constant renewal as we learn new things about who we were, are and might yet be.

There are enough books here, and in the bibliographies at the end of each of them, to get you through to the spring”

Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books

Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 9d

What if he’s sort of like a soft shell tortoise and it can expand?

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 9d

If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏.

The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part I

Large Language Models (LLMs) are fancy artificial neural networks. But you don’t have time to learn the math or engineering. Unfortunately…

medium.com

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 9d

If you haven’t yet, highly recommend watching the first VOD of the @friends-table.bsky.social folks playing the game. They invent religion around the game almost immediately.
www.twitch.tv/videos/25754...

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 9d

If government regulators still had any sense of maintaining longterm industry health they’d reject this.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 9d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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