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‘OpenAI’s GPT-3 has Powerful Implications for the Education Sector’
October 16, 2020Education Technology, October 9, 2020 Julian Togelius (computer science and engineering) is quoted in this piece. Read More…
Generating fake fingerprints to unlock smartphones
November 20, 2018Our Phd candidate Philip Bontrager won best paper at BTAS, the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems. Written together with GIL Director Julian Togelius, Aditi Roy, Nasir Memon and Arun Ross, the paper… Read More…
First-of-its-Kind Competition for Minecraft to Probe the Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence
May 30, 2018Check out our write-up about our GDMC Competition. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-of-its-kind-competition-for-minecraft-to-probe-the-creative-potential-of-artificial-intelligence-300656527.html Read More…
Christoph Salge: How to Build a Robot That Wants to Change the World
November 3, 2017Quanta Magazine featured our lab’s very own Christoph Salge in an article about AI and programming robots. Read all about it here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-a-robot-that-wants-to-change-the-world-20171101/ Read More…
Why AI researchers like video games – Economist
May 18, 2017We were mentioned in The Economist: Like displaying curiosity and delaying rewards, transferring learning from one task to another is something humans do effortlessly but machines struggle to manage. Here again, games are playing an… Read More…
Story on Vox
March 8, 2017GIL Co-Directors weigh in on the future of A. I. I’m somewhat concerned about what I think of as “intermediate stages,” in which, say, self-driving cars share the road with human drivers. … But once… Read More…
GIL Co-director Togelius Speaks About Artificial Intelligence at NYU AI Accelerator Launch
August 11, 2016View the news report from NY1 here. Read More…
We Were Interviewed by Inverse
June 23, 2016https://www.facebook.com/inverse/videos/1028544093860704/ Read More…
How Gaming Could Win Us More Adaptable Artificial Intelligence : A Conversation with Dr. Julian Togelius
May 25, 2016TechEmergence recently featured an interview with Game Lab’s Julian Togelius about his research in how games can help us develop AI. Listen here: You can also visit TechEmergence for some more backgroud on AI and… Read More…
Using Games to Win the War for Talent in the Workplace From Design to AI & Big Data
May 2, 20165th Annual Conference Human Capital Innovation in Technology & Analytics Prof. Andy Nealen, Director of the Game Innovation Lab, and Christoffer Holmgård, PhD, and Frank Lance, Director of the NYU Game Center came together at… Read More…