Ian Cheng

Ian Cheng

entropy wrangler in NYC

Work Experience

2024 — Now
NYC

A new company building animal-level AI agents capable of deep play. For kids and families.

2015 — Now
NYC

A production company dedicated to worlding and worlding literacy. Producing stories, simulations, and artificial life.

Projects

2022

A 50min real-time anime built in the Unity game engine.

2019

An artificial lifeform featuring a neuro-symbolic learning system combined with a society-of-mind-like agent architecture.

2017

A trilogy of simulations that introduced a narrative agent - the emissary - whose motivation to enact a story was set into conflict with the open-ended chaos of the simulation.

Writing

2019

A book exploring the psychology and techniques of creating living autonomous worlds.

Education

2007 — 2009
MA Visual Arts at Columbia University
New York
2002 — 2006
BA Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley
Berkeley

Contact

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Teams

Current
Opponent Systems