Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Our Saturday keynote from the Transformer2026: AI and the Future of Games conference addresses why AI has yet to transform actual gameplay, arguing this is a design problem rather than a technical one.
Julian Togelius is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University and co-founder of modl.ai, which develops AI methods for game testing. He has researched the intersection of AI and video games for more than 20 years, contributing methods for procedural content generation and player behavior modeling, as well as the General Video Game Playing Competition. He argues that the absence of AI in actual gameplay is a design problem, not a technical one—and that we need to design games around modern AI capabilities.
Find more information on the 8th annual summer school on AI and Games at school.gameaibook.org
For more great game dev videos like this, please support our Patreon at patreon.com/GeorgiaGameDevs
Our Saturday keynote from the Transformer2026: AI and the Future of Games conference addresses why AI has yet to transform actual gameplay, arguing this is a design problem rather than a technical one.
Julian Togelius is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University and co-founder of modl.ai, which develops AI methods for game testing. He has researched the intersection of AI and video games for more than 20 years, contributing methods for procedural content generation and player behavior modeling, as well as the General Video Game Playing Competition. He argues that the absence of AI in actual gameplay is a design problem, not a technical one—and that we need to design games around modern AI capabilities.
Find more information on the 8th annual summer school on AI and Games at school.gameaibook.org
For more great game dev videos like this, please support our Patreon at patreon.com/GeorgiaGameDevs
