Nathan Sturtevant

We are very happy to announce the list of newly elected AAAI Fellows for 2026. AAAI will celebrate the newly elected Fellows at the awards ceremony during AAAI-26. Congratulations to all the 2026 Fellows for this well-deserved honor! Bo An Elias Bareinboim Roman Barták Tanya Berger-Wolf Sanmay Das Alan Fern Irwin King Yan Liu Nathan Sturtevant Qi Tian Francesca Toni Ingmar Weber Learn more: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaa…

I'm honored to join this list of distinguished researchers: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaa…

Learn more about U of A professor Nathan Sturtevant's research. @nathansttt @ualbertaScience

Finishes by talking about governance, which makes sense. First audience question is "what about AI being too dumb, not too smart." A good question - he defers to the potential future AI that will be super-intelligent.

He proposes an AI oracle that can answer queries of the form P(statement is true | context). This is a way of avoiding the risks of a system deceiving us - if it can get these probabilities correct. Interesting to think about what you could build with such a tool.

Listening to Bengio at #IJCAI25. While I agree with the risks of AI, he seems to be worried about future AI as an actor with malicious goals and intentions. I'm far more worried about what people do with AI than what AI does on its own.

My students have created some excellent games this term. One example I particularly enjoyed: venetiaz.itch.io/petrichor

A message regarding today's unfortunate studio news.

Jasper wildfire damage visualized through satellite imagery from a month ago and now. Dark green denotes dense vegetation, white denotes almost none. (details in the thread)

The Seventeenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024) from June 6-8, 2024 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Proceedings are now available here: bit.ly/3wRQBnR

Kick-start of the ICAPS 2024 Summer School: with talks by Sarah Keren and Nathan Sturtevant. Hard work by the summer school organisers (Sarah Keren, Jane Jean Kiam, Pascal Bercher) and teaching assistants (Guy Azran, Yuval Goshen) is paying off!

The ICAPS 2024 Program Overview is now live - icaps24.icaps-conference.org/program/overvi… The late registration deadline is fast approaching. If you have not already, please register soon as rooms are in short supply.

x-posting from Linkedin -- Tommy Thompson makes the best videos about AI in videogames. Tommy approached me about a FEAR retrospective episode to help celebrate the @AIandGames youtube channel turning 10 years old. One of his questions was why FEAR is relevant almost 20 years later. I think a big part of that is due to Tommy making such great videos about it, keeping the interest alive! I'm grateful that AI & Games has spotlighted the work, in several videos over the years, and it was a lot of fun to reminisce on this video with Tommy. Tommy has a unique insider perspective, having established himself as the go-to guy for Game AI consulting. I am excited to see how he connects the dots from FEAR to @bitpartai, in a follow up video he and I are working on. I recommend subscribing to @AIandGames to get informed perspectives on game AI, complemented with Tommy's delightful Scottish brogue.

Doing some regression tests on snakebird/anhinga code today - found this level in the process: #20b16EisGdidyeofefugkhaieigiuivjkjlKfsFPdvhqBgifrghgxSgjRSdhR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">movingai.com/snakebird/play…

@pulkit_verma Some of us couldn't make it over in time - we were busy planning for the next planning conference. 😁 #ICAPS2024

It was great to meet in person with the AI Planning community... #AAAI2024

Sokobond Express, @josehzz1's beautifully minimalist puzzle game of chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding, is OUT NOW on Steam/itch for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam Deck!

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s elected Fellows are individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions — usually over at least a ten-year period — to the field of artificial intelligence. Congratulations to our 2024 Fellows who will be recognized at the AAAI-24 awards ceremony on Saturday February 24: ⭐️Anima Anandkumar, Caltech and NVIDIA ⭐️Claire Cardie, Cornell University ⭐️Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame ⭐️Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia ⭐️Jennifer Dy, Northeastern University ⭐️Ariel Felner Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev ⭐️Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt ⭐️Mausam,  Indian Institute of Technology ⭐️Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University ⭐️Brian Scassellati, Yale University ⭐️Kilian Weinberger, Cornell University ⭐️Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University
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@IADaveMark My condolences

As of this afternoon, I am officially without parents.

Our 2024 Conference Call is *OPEN* Abstracts due December 7th. Plan to share your research with the community in Banff next year. icaps24.icaps-conference.org/calls/main_tra…