GAIG

Our group is closely associated with the EPSRC funded IGGI Centre for Doctoral Training (http://iggi.org.uk), and we currently have openings for PhD students via the IGGI programme and also through other sources of funding (self-funded students are also welcome to apply)... The research has creative applications, and we study the use of AI to help automate the game design process. We measure the performance and experience of AI agents playing games to assess their quality and tune their design. For this purpose, the deep statistical search methods are especially interesting as they are often able to play novel games to a reasonable standard without any training, producing high performance within milliseconds of being presented with a new game variant.