@matthewguz.bsky.social
Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
@ironsparrow.etheirys.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialReading for Indigenous Peoples' Day. (Site asks for an email or account, but it's free.)
@brendanmcleod.devReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialThis Columbo Day, revisit the Prisoner's Dilemma episode that @matthewguz.bsky.social and @nictringali.bsky.social did on two Falk/McGoohan collabs, and then a third one my mother insisted we watch to "get it out of our system." sites.libsyn.com/547902/bonus...
@matthewguz.bsky.socialSounds like a great event! And nice work on the subtle debut of beardless Mike!
@matthewguz.bsky.socialLaozi said that I think
@matthewguz.bsky.socialIt’s a smart move! NVIDIA benefits a lot from open models being the norm since that means more individuals need their own chip.
@johnrgallagher.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialHello there. I'm much grayer than this picture indicates.
@matthewguz.bsky.socialExactly!
@matthewguz.bsky.social3 hours of teaching and 5 hours of meetings today. Theres a tumbleweed where my brain should be.
@shimminykricket.blacksky.appReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think
@johnrgallagher.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialThe verified Navier-Stokes proof does not match the one in the paper.
"Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs"
@matthewguz.bsky.socialWelcome back Google Stadia! This time people will want you for sure.
@matthewguz.bsky.socialTotally makes sense, I just find that the delineation of states and actions especially helps when students think about the design of RL problems and where it works well.
@slashie.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialI've been given the honor of giving the closing talk at this year's #Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club, joining a stellar speaker lineup. I'd share my talk's title, but it would go over bsky's character limit! Check out the full program: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
@matthewguz.bsky.socialThanks for sharing! I think the general thrust seems nice but can you say why you don’t teach the MDP formalism? I find it makes things way faster and I can usually cover it in like 15 mins with examples.
@matthewguz.bsky.socialThey just did a big hiring push for it, including some big names, expect another round of marketing push for it soon.
@matthewguz.bsky.socialAnd currently with Genie!
@codingconduct.ccReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialCome work with us!
The Dyson School of Design Engineering at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is hiring for an Assistant Professor in Fair and Responsible AI.
@iaalberta.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialInterested in learning more about cooperatives or worker centric business models but not with a studio? Check out the upcoming Prairie Winter Studio Jam!
@matthewguz.bsky.socialAh yes, the ACM house style
@mtrc.bsky.socialReposted by @matthewguz.bsky.socialEvery AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi@jpeg)