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Julian Togelius

@togelius.bsky.social

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AI and Games Researcher at NYU.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · Nov 25

Lots of new followers. Maybe it's time to do a quick intro post (can't remember if I did one in the past).
I work on AI for games, games for AI, open-ended learning, and AI applications in various fields. I also often have opinions on various things, many but not all of them related to AI.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll be professoring for 20 years more! Unless someone pays me stupid money to do something else. But even then, I’ll probably come back to being a professor afterwards.

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 5h

I heard about it just recently, and was shocked. Also, felt old.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 14h

Min hedersdoktorsföreläsning är om exakt en vecka, kl 15.15 på onsdag den 15:e, på Malmö Universitet. Alla är välkomna! Ja, du också!
mau.se/en/calendar/...

Honorary doctor lecture – Julian Togelius | Malmö University

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d

We're finally out of stealth: percepta.ai
We're a research / engineering team working together in industries like health and logistics to ship ML tools that drastically improve productivity. If you're interested in ML and RL work that matters, come join us 😀

Percepta | A General Catalyst Transformation Company

Transforming critical institutions using applied AI. Let's harness the frontier.

percepta.ai

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 7d

Speaking of said winner and other winners I would take it as a personal favor if you would try out excellent games made by former students, such as:
CONSUME ME
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

DESPELOTE
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...

BABY STEPS
store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 8d

Hard for me fault anyone who doesn’t know good games exist when almost no major gaming website reviewed or covered this year’s Seamus McNally Grand Prize winner.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 13d

Unity has formed an AI Council, and I'm part of it! I'm very excited to get the chance to provide input on how to best enable the AI-powered games of the future.
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you!

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 13d

There are some great talks here, and also a talk by me

RL and Video Games Workshop @ RLC 2025 @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 13d

Missed our workshop at @rl-conference.bsky.social?
Watch all keynote presentations and the panel discussion on YouTube:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Big thanks to our awesome speakers: @togelius.bsky.social, @jmac-ai.bsky.social, Roberta Raileanu, Michael Bowling and @pcastr.bsky.social!

RLVG Sessions @ RLC 2025 - YouTube

Recorded sessions of the Reinforcement Learning and Video Games (RLVG) workshop at the Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2025. Recorded on August 5, 2025

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 17d

Can we normalize landline telephones?

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Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 20d

Life update: I am still looking for work, but I am now a doctor, which make it way more fancy 😊

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations!

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social · 21d

Faculty job — please help spread the word!

At UC Santa Cruz we have two games degrees, one in Engineering and one in Arts. This is a job with the Arts folks, who include super cool creators like @mattiebrice.bsky.social & @swensen.bsky.social

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

This is work led by Qingquan Zhang and Yuchen Li with the help of Jialin Liu, Georgios Yannakakis and me
Read more here:
journal.hep.com.cn/fcs/EN/10.10...
Or in the arXiv version:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16065

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

Interestingly, female werewolves perform somewhat better, apparently because other players are unlikely to suspect them.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

In a nutshell, the LLMs are highly influenced by the stereotypical genders of the various roles. Changing gender of players will change the behavior of other players towards them.

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

We let a bunch of LLMs play Werewolf against each other, and looked at whether there were systematic variations in how they treated each other based on in-game gender.

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

Werewolf is a classic social deduction game, where players need to find out who the werewolves are and kill them, before the werewolves get to them. It is essentially the same game as Mafia, and there are various variations.

Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 23d

Were you ever killed because of your gender? In a game, I mean. For example, in a social deduction game, such as Werewolf or Mafia. In a new paper, we investigate gender biases among LLMs playing Werewolf.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 25d

"here's a brand new competition we've been working to launch and oh shit Robin solved it optimally already well never mind"

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 25d

This was back in my headspace again given I just gave my keynote at IEEE CoG celebrating 20 years of the conference.

It's @robinwobbles.bsky.social's A* bot submitted to the 2009 Mario AI Competition. Which amusingly humbled all of the ML attempts developed that year.

youtu.be/0s3d1LfjWCI?...

Infinite Mario AI

YouTube video by Robin Baumgarten

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 25d

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 25d

Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 2009

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 27d

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interestingly, 25 years later online shopping seems to be less than 20% of all retail. Clearly not a failure, but not quite the world-changing force it was proclaimed to be, at least not in the medium term.

usafacts.org/articles/us-...

How has online shopping changed the retail industry? | USAFacts

The retail industry makes up 6.4% of GDP, and 15% of retail sales happen online.

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