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Engage in a comprehensive exploration of how AI is transforming the gaming industry with talks about the leading breakthroughs in real-time decision making using complex systems.</p><p><br></p><p>Save the date as the gates to the Kingdom will open on October 19th, with arrivals starting at 16:30 at <a href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z3F6UiM31v6KD5KZ6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Malmskillnadsgatan 19</a>, Stockholm, and the event commencing at 17:00.</p><p><br></p><p>Food and drinks (non-alcoholic) will be provided by our hosts at King (along with some free merch) and there will be time for mingling and networking. We look forward to seeing you there!</p><p><br></p><h3>Session Overview:</h3><p><br></p><p><strong>Design of Superhuman Racing AI agent, Gran Turismo Sophy, trained through Deep Reinforcement Learning</strong></p><p><strong>/ </strong>Alisa Devlic - Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI</p><p><br></p><p>Alisa Devlic, will take you on an exciting journey into the world of AI-powered gaming. Learn how she and her team pushed the boundaries of AI by developing Gran Turismo Sophy, a racing AI agent that outperforms the world's best esports drivers. Discover how they combined Deep Reinforcement Learning with sportsmanship values to achieve championship-level results.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Large Language Models fostering Game AI</strong></p><p>/ Sara Karimi - King, Industrial PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology</p><p><br></p><p>In this talk, Sara Karimi reviews how LLMs have inspired Game-AI research with a focus on Reinforcement Learning. Research on LLMs is being applied both directly and indirectly in the gaming industry to produce and test games. LLMs' direct applications concern topics like NPC speech synthesis in games, and game-level generation, while techniques used in LLMs have indirectly inspired other approaches that are being used in the industry, e.g., Reinforcement Learning.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>AI-powered Content Automation@King: Our journey and the road ahead</strong></p><p>/ Matteo Biasielli - King, Senior AI/ML Engineer</p><p><br></p><p>Matteo Biasielli will go through our journey of development of our AI tools for automating playtesting, tweaking and generation of content. We will highlight the challenges we faced, milestones we achieved and the exciting road that lies ahead of us at King.</p><p><br></p><h3>Meet our speakers:</h3><p><br></p><p><strong>Alisa Devlic</strong> - Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI</p><p><br></p><p><img src=\"https://static.vscdn.net/images/activision.com/272834470517679913456298997799393114053-142691479751509626358546238907395614261.png\"></p><p><br></p><p>Alisa Devlic focuses on improving gaming experiences through deep reinforcement learning. She trains autonomous agents to learn new tasks and adapt to complex environments that can enhance gaming experience. With a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and postdoctoral work at IMT Atlantique in France, she's worked in industry labs (Ericsson Research and Huawei Technologies) and academia (KTH, IMT Atlantique and University of Zagreb). </p><p>Alisa was a key contributor to Sony AI's GT Sophy, the first racing agent that outperforms world\u2019s top esports drivers.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sara Karimi - </strong>Senior AI Research Engineer at King, Industrial PhD student At KTH Royal Institute of Technology</p><p><br></p><p><img src=\"https://static.vscdn.net/images/activision.com/272834470517679913456298997799393114053-96562111604042095501784318375527622497.png\"></p><p><br></p><p>Sara Karimi is senior ML researcher at King, and a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.</p><p>She has a background in mathematics and computer science. In the past 5 years, she has been working on Machine Learning solutions such as test automation and automated playtesting in the games.</p><p>Currently, her main research focus is generalization in reinforcement learning agents.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Matteo Biasielli</strong> - Senior AI/ML Engineer at King</p><p><br></p><p><img src=\"https://static.vscdn.net/images/activision.com/272834470517679913456298997799393114053-172324104754823028680466500808512881351.png\"></p><p><br></p><p>Matteo Biasielli is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at King, where he carries out applied ML work for the games, with particular focus on content generation and user experience personalization. Matteo studied Computer Engineering and Machine Learning at the Polytechnic University of Milan and the University of Illinois at Chicago.&nbsp;</p><p>His academic research revolved around the use of Deep Learning approaches in the field of Dependable Systems, with a focus on hardening schemes for image and signal processing systems in aerospace applications.</p><h3><br></h3><h3>About WASP WARA Media &amp; Language</h3><p><img src=\"https://static.vscdn.net/images/activision.com/272834470517679913456298997799393114053-51803585835176633442238977978423563260.png\"></p><p>The mission of WASP Research Arena for Media and Language (WARA M&amp;L) is to build a multidisciplinary ecosystem around Media AI, connecting scientific fields and a diversity of industrial segments.</p><p>WASP WARA M&amp;L aims to foster personal relationships through shared tasks, one-to-one partner matching, and focused research seminars. Additionally, the arena leverages on-going investments in media infrastructure to verify emerging technologies and transfer solutions between verticals. It addresses research topics related to the generation and analysis of media data, and extrinsic effects of the same. To overcome thresholds for collaboration, the arena provides data management and benchmarking, together with engineering support and legal consultation on IP matters.</p><p><br></p><h3>About King</h3><p><img src=\"https://static.vscdn.net/images/activision.com/272834470517679913456298997799393114053-195994626024554434197371258017837674478.png\"></p><p>With a mission of <em>Making the World Playful</em>, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with a 20-year history of delivering some of the world\u2019s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as <em>Farm Heroes Sag</em>a. <em>Candy Crush </em>has been the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores for the last six years, and King's games are being played by 238 million monthly active users as of Q2 2023.<em> </em>King, a part of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), has game studios in Stockholm, Malm\u00f6, London, Barcelona and Berlin and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at <a href=\"http://king.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">King.com</a> or by following us on <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/king/mycompany/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a>, <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lifeatking/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@lifeatking</a> on Instagram, or <a href=\"https://twitter.com/king_games\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@king_games</a> on Twitter.</p><p><br></p><p>We are also hiring! You can view our sweet open roles here at King in either <a href=\"https://careers.king.com/jobs/?search=Data&amp;location=Stockholm&amp;role=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Data Science, Analytics/Engineering</a> or <a href=\"https://careers.king.com/jobs/?search=AI&amp;location=Stockholm&amp;role=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">AI/ML</a>&nbsp;by clicking on these links to our careers website.</p><p><br></p><h3>Event Schedule:</h3><p><br></p><p><strong>16:30 - 17:00 </strong>- Registration / Arrival to King office</p><p><strong>17:00 - 17:10</strong> - Welcome Remarks</p><p>with Konrad Tollmar, Research Director - Electronic Arts (EA)</p><p><strong>17:10 - 17:25</strong> - AI-powered Content Automation@King: Our journey and the road ahead</p><p>with Matteo Biasielli, Senior AI/ML Engineer at King</p><p><strong>17:25 - 18:05</strong> - How Large Language Models have inspired Game AI</p><p>with Sara Karimi, Senior AI Research Engineer at King, Industrial PhD student At KTH Royal Institute of Technology</p><p><strong>18:05 - 18:20</strong> - Break</p><p><strong>18:20 - 19:00</strong> - Design of Superhuman Racing AI agent, Gran Turismo Sophy, trained through Deep Reinforcement Learning</p><p>with Alisa Devlic, Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI</p><p><strong>19:00 - 19:15</strong> - Q&amp;A moderated by Sahar Asadi, Director, AI Labs - AI Center of Excellence at King</p><p><strong>19:15 - 19:45</strong> - Mingle &amp; 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