CalazCon 037 - Piz/ZA - The Clock's Ticking, The War Goes On, PART ONE After a close encounter with TWO Rivals during their last Mission, Piz/ZA realize that they need to be better prepare for the next time they face them. Time to plan. Also a podcast! youtu.be/1YMaW1yTlUI

I got to Zoom in to help announce that AIIDE Conference 2025 will be on the lovely University of Alberta campus here in Edmonton, Alberta! Looking forward to seeing everyone there next November!

We just extended the deadline for this special issue to December 16 (my birthday)! Please submit a bunch of weird LLM and games (including critical work!) as a birthday gift to me.

Announcing a new kickstarter project with the fantastic composer/writer Jack de Quidt and myself - The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall: A Deck of Bestiary Cards Stay tuned for the Kickstarter drop next week

✏️ ANNOUNCING OUR DEBUT GAME: outdraw.AI ✏️ • Draw things humans will get, but an AI won’t! • Co-op party game for 2-6 players • Use AI to enhance your creativity, not replace it • Coming Q1 2025! 👇WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM 👇

New profile picture! And I should say I'm barely on here anymore. I'll still post for major new updates, but if you'd like to follow me I'm more active on bsky matthewguz.bsky.social

Registration closes tomorrow for AI Ethics 2 on Jan 16! Gain the skills and tools to identify and navigate challenges around responsible AI deployment. Register now: hubs.la/Q02_-n5N0 #AIEthics #Governance #CanTech

Congratulations to the newly Dr. Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad for passing her thesis defence!

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 ‘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀’ 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 Matthew Guzdial explains that reasoning models do not know what language is. Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first

The Narrative Intelligence folks should probably be checking out Realis. It is basically narrative planning as a tabletop roleplaying system. rascal.news/realis-ditches…

Heads up, I am making X write only and only for major announcements. I just can't stand to enrich X's owner with my eyes/clicks. I'm on bsky as matthewguz

We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment! (link in reply)

Very excited to host AIIDE this year, I'd strongly encourage anyone interested in AI and games to submit work and attend!

“I want to empower people to be able to make games on their own.” says Matthew Guzdial How can #AI help? It can generate text and images, so why not entire games? Read my story for Science News Explores snexplores.org/article/ai-mak…

Exciting to announce that the second edition of the PCGML textbook by Sam Snodgrass, Adam Summerville and myself is online! This version is a major update of the first, with a new chapter on GenAI and updates on the last two years of research. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

looks really cool! cognitive scientists should especially pay attention to this we can now procedurally generate environments. will be key for scaling up complexity of experimental designs while maintaining experimental control! see arxiv.org/abs/2502.20349 for discussion!

After literal years of being down due to security issues, my blog is now back up, including my one post on "How to Write an AIIDE Paper" guzdial.com/blog/how-to-wr…

We’re extending the AIIDE deadline! Partially due to author requests, partially due to a significant increase in submissions meaning I need to increase the PC!