Games Now! Podcast

In this first episode of GN! Looking Back we talk to Julian Togelius, an Associate Professor at NYU and founder at modl.ai. Julian was lecturing in 2018 at Aalto University about the powers of AI in designing and playing games. We listen a snippet of his 2018 lecture and proceed with reflections on what has happened between 2018 and 2022. What is Julian thinking about No Man's Sky now and why did he ask Stable Diffusion to picture his mom's washing machine? And even more so, what has quantum computers to do with all of this? Join in on Games Now Looking Back to find out!

Show Notes

In the first episode of GN! Looking Back we talk to Julian Togelius, an Associate Professor at NYU and founder at modl.ai. Julian was lecturing in 2018 at Aalto University about the powers of AI in designing and playing games. We listen a snippet of his 2018 lecture and proceed with reflections on what has happened between 2018 and 2022. What is Julian thinking about No Man's Sky now and why did he ask Stable Diffusion to picture his mom's washing machine? And even more so, what has quantum computers to do with all of this? Join in on Games Now Looking Back to find out!

Check Julian's original lecture "Algorithms that Play and Design Games" at: https://youtu.be/1qhJ7UnGf3Q

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What is Games Now! Podcast?

Games Now! is an open lecture series on game industry trends run by Aalto University. Since 2013, the lecture series has been inviting game industry experts from all over the world to share their insights on what is current in games right now. In the second season of the "Games Now!" Podcast, we introduce our "Further Questions" series. In these episodes, we revisit the lectures of the academic year, diving deeper into topics with questions submitted by our students.