World & Human Action Models for Gameplay Ideation

Modeling complex environments and realistic human behaviors within them is a key goal of artificial intelligence research. Progress toward this goal has exciting potential for applications in video games—from new tools that empower game developers to realize new creative visions, to enabling new kinds of immersive player experiences. This talk focuses on recent research advances from the Game Intelligence team at Microsoft Research toward scalable machine learning architectures that effectively model human gameplay, and our vision of how these innovations could empower creatives in the future.