Mihail Morosan

Tiny update on my mission to embrace more European solutions over (mostly) US ones. Maybe some of the things here make someone curious.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from AI.” Or something like that.

I did not start my PhD with the topic I eventually ended it with. I originally started it with the goal of creating some sort of AI agent that is able to act diplomatically in strategy games.

I have crunched the numbers. Every single company I worked at as a full time salaried employee became a unicorn within a couple of months after I joined.

Rant: I am very very very annoyed with a lot of people saying “oh, Europe doesn’t innovate. You should move to the US / UAE if you want to start a business. They tax you so little and there is nowhere near as much regulation.” and then, sometimes in the same paragraph, say “it’s so nice to spend time in Italy / France / Germany / Poland / Romania / etc, I feel so relaxed here. The roads are nice and the amenities are wonderful. Have you seen that really cool fountain in Rome?”.

Intro # So let me talk to you about my first bit of work, the one that formed the basis for most of my PhD: Automated Game Balancing in Ms PacMan and StarCraft Using Evolutionary Algorithms from Evo 2017.