Crowdsourcing Intelligence in Jeff Orkin's 'The Restaurant Game' | AI and Games #76

in 2005, hot off the success of the ground breaking first-person shooter F.E.A.R., AI programmer Jeff Orkin's next step was to leave the games industry. But what happened to him? Where did he go? In this episode we unpack how his journey into grad school led to the creation of 'The Restaurant Game', and how it planted the seeds for his eventual return to the games industry.

You can find out more about The Restaurant Game from the publication hosted at the MIT Media Lab:
https://www.media.mit.edu/people/jork...

Plus, check out the work Jeff is working on now over at:
https://www.bitpart.ai/

[00:00] Introduction
[02:45] Leaving the Games Industry
[08:47] The Restaurant Game
[17:36] The Long Road Back to Games
[29:08] Closing
[31:08] Credits

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