Richard Evans (AI researcher)
- Richard Evans (AI researcher)
Richard Evans is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher working in computer games.
He designed and implemented the AI for "Black & White", for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence. [ [http://www.gamechoiceawards.com/archive/gdca_2nd.htm Archive/2nd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards] from the Game Developer Choice Awards website] [ [http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/archvC2.html AAAI.Org] AAAI.Org] For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron training, and decision tree learning. The artificial creature in "Black & White" holds the "Guinness World Record" for most intelligent being in a game. [ [http://www.aiide.org/speakers.html#S2.5 Blurb on Evans] from Invited Speakers list from AIIDE website] "Some AI wizards - like Black & White's Richard Evans - have become minor celebrities among hardcore gamers". [ [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/aigames.html Wired Article] Wired Article on AI by Steven Johnson] Black and White is Number 1 in AIGameDev's most influential AI games. [ [http://aigamedev.com/reviews/top-ai-games AIGameDev article] ]
He is particularly interested in the application of philosophical ideas to AI applications, particularly the normative pragmatism of Hegel, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. [ [http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020424/evans_pfv.htm Wittgenstinian social practice] by Evans and Thomas Barnet-Lamb]
He is currently at EA/Maxis, designing the AI architecture for The Sims 3 [ [http://tara.teich.net/archives/aiide-2007-richard-evans-talks-sims-3/ Tara Teich's AI Blog] ] .
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