Richard Evans (AI researcher)

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

Black & White

The Sims 3
Website www.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
  9. Archive/2nd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards 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