My Dream
Starting maybe ten years ago I dreamed of the future of video games. I always wanted to login to a living breathing, dynamically evolving virtual world; a second life. Now, I see the opportunity to make it a reality.
I am currently building...
...a GenAI-driven game where players lead a mercenary guild, engaging with NPCs and mercenary members via natural language. The game state evolves by sending mercenary members on missions. Leveraging AI, each character comes to life with unique backstories and personalities, influencing dynamic story lines and AI-generated mission outcomes and short stories that update the text-based world.
Key Machine Learning Milestones:
2013: My desire to integrate AI and gaming began. While completing my PhD, I took a couple courses in machine learning and used an EEG to control a virtual avatar via brain waves.
2016: Utilized Reinforcement Learning to play Sonic the Hedgehog and Starcraft II. Characters in games have to be able to learn after all.
2019: My initial professional journey post-PhD was 1.5 years working as a research engineer in Conversational AI – essential for creating NPCs that players could genuinely interact with.
2020: To realize my dream, I understood the need for a more holistic engineering-driven AI expertise. I worked as an AI engineer in supply chain management for two years to acquire the skills necessary (DMBS, Cloud, etc) to build systems end-to-end.
2023: With the paradigm shift that is GenAI, I resigned from my conventional role in order to dive full-time into working with GenAI in gaming. I want to sculpt an immersive evolving virtual world, it’s that simple. That is my goal and my priority.