Richard Evans (AI researcher)

Richard Evans
Richard Evans, Oxford, 2016.
Alma mater	Imperial College London Cambridge University
Known for	AI 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