Matthew Guzdial
@matthewguz.bsky.social
Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
This has been a very tough semester for a bunch of reasons BUT I just got to spend the evening hammering out a generic Deep Q notebook for an assignment where students have to make their own grid worlds.
Look at em goooooo
Look at em goooooo
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
This has been a very tough semester for a bunch of reasons BUT I just got to spend the evening hammering out a generic Deep Q notebook for an assignment where students have to make their own grid worlds.
Look at em goooooo
Look at em goooooo
Pictured: the culprit (and blåhaj, connection unknown)
January 29, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Pictured: the culprit (and blåhaj, connection unknown)
Dunno who that is
January 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Dunno who that is
One eyed Olaf Frozen on campus bless you
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
One eyed Olaf Frozen on campus bless you
I typically don’t post my low fodmap experiments on here but when @persephone.blue says it’s in their “top five cakes” how can I not share my custom low fodmap carrot cake?
December 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I typically don’t post my low fodmap experiments on here but when @persephone.blue says it’s in their “top five cakes” how can I not share my custom low fodmap carrot cake?
#AIIDE25 wrapped! Thanks to everyone who made this year’s @aiide.bsky.social such a success. We’ll be back soon with announcements for ’26’s location and call, plus the ‘25 recordings. But for now I’m going to turn off my brain for 48 hours.
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#AIIDE25 wrapped! Thanks to everyone who made this year’s @aiide.bsky.social such a success. We’ll be back soon with announcements for ’26’s location and call, plus the ‘25 recordings. But for now I’m going to turn off my brain for 48 hours.
Exciting to find out that I’m still going to be at EXAG in 10 years! And that I’ll have regressed to be 20 years younger by then!
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Exciting to find out that I’m still going to be at EXAG in 10 years! And that I’ll have regressed to be 20 years younger by then!
EXAG/INT Workshop Keynote from Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social with incredible slide design. Shout outs @bombsfall.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
EXAG/INT Workshop Keynote from Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social with incredible slide design. Shout outs @bombsfall.bsky.social
Plus this initiative by Richard Zhao @richardzhao.bsky.social to track where all our roughly 120 attendees originate from!
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Plus this initiative by Richard Zhao @richardzhao.bsky.social to track where all our roughly 120 attendees originate from!
Swag this year includes AIIDE and EXAG stickers plus this incredible pin design from Dagmar Lofts @dagmarlofts.bsky.social!
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Swag this year includes AIIDE and EXAG stickers plus this incredible pin design from Dagmar Lofts @dagmarlofts.bsky.social!
So sorry to hear that! Here’s Goo and Vincent our geriatric angels
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
So sorry to hear that! Here’s Goo and Vincent our geriatric angels
Excited to announce that our work on Reinforcement Learning for Arachnophobia treatment has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems! We found that an RL agent could more effectively adapt VR spiders to achieve specified anxiety levels in users compared to current SOTA.
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Excited to announce that our work on Reinforcement Learning for Arachnophobia treatment has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems! We found that an RL agent could more effectively adapt VR spiders to achieve specified anxiety levels in users compared to current SOTA.
Dagstuhl is going well
July 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Dagstuhl is going well
When else am I gonna get a chance to do one of these?
(I'm tenured)
(I'm tenured)
July 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
When else am I gonna get a chance to do one of these?
(I'm tenured)
(I'm tenured)
You can make some pretty fun things with it! Thanks to TWOSE for having me as their Science Fellow for 2025!
Github link: github.com/mguzdial3/Cu...
Github link: github.com/mguzdial3/Cu...
July 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You can make some pretty fun things with it! Thanks to TWOSE for having me as their Science Fellow for 2025!
Github link: github.com/mguzdial3/Cu...
Github link: github.com/mguzdial3/Cu...
PEAK has the juice
June 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
PEAK has the juice
Saturday I ran the second edition of the Upper Bound-associated AI and Games workshop with special guests Dr. Seth Cooper, @amidos2006.bsky.social, and @maxkreminski.bsky.social! Great conversations on modelling player knowledge, designer intent, and tension curves as a language for game design.
May 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Saturday I ran the second edition of the Upper Bound-associated AI and Games workshop with special guests Dr. Seth Cooper, @amidos2006.bsky.social, and @maxkreminski.bsky.social! Great conversations on modelling player knowledge, designer intent, and tension curves as a language for game design.
For example, I could visualize how the possible outcomes shifted before (left) and after (right) a seemingly small rules change. Each dot in these images is a single simulated game of 1000 simulated games. The size of the dots showed how many times that outcome happened. Watch out soldiers!
May 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For example, I could visualize how the possible outcomes shifted before (left) and after (right) a seemingly small rules change. Each dot in these images is a single simulated game of 1000 simulated games. The size of the dots showed how many times that outcome happened. Watch out soldiers!