Richard Evans (AI researcher)

Richard Evans
Richard Evans, Oxford, 2016.
Alma materImperial College London Cambridge University
Known forAI Research

Black & White

The Sims 3
Websitewww.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.evans14

Richard Evans (born 23 October 1969) is an artificial intelligence (AI) research scientist at DeepMind. His research focuses on integrating declarative interpretable logic-based systems with neural networks,[1][2][3] and on formal models of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.[4][5][6]

Previously, he designed the AI for a number of computer games. He was the co-founder, along with Emily Short, of Little Text People, developing real-time multiplayer interactive fiction. Little Text People was acquired by Linden Lab in January 2012 for an undisclosed sum.[7] At EA/Maxis, he was the AI lead on The Sims 3.[8] He also designed and implemented the AI for Black & White, for which he received a number of awards.[9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Learning Explanatory Rules from Noisy Data
  2. ↑ The deepest problem with deep learning
  3. ↑ Can Neural Networks Understand Logical Entailment
  4. ↑ Evans, R.; Sergot, M.; Stephenson, A. (2020). "Formalizing Kant's Rules". Journal of Philosophical Logic. 49 (4): 613–680. doi:10.1007/s10992-019-09531-x.
  5. ↑ High-level Perception and Program Synthesis, FLoC, Oxford, 2018
  6. ↑ Evans, Richard; Hernandez-Orallo, Jose; Welbl, Johannes; Kohli, Pushmeet; Sergot, Marek (2019). "Making sense of sensory input". arXiv:1910.02227 [cs.AI].
  7. ↑ Little Text People acquired by Linden Lab
  8. ↑ "Sims 3 won Editor's Pick for Best AI in a AAA Game 2009". Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  9. ↑ Archive/2nd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine from the Game Developer Choice Awards website
  10. ↑ AAAI.Org AAAI.Org
  11. ↑ Blurb on Evans Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine from Invited Speakers list from AIIDE website
  12. ↑ "AIGameDev article". Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2017.