Local Agentic Theory For Mobile Games — Shafik Quoraishee & Joanne Song, The New York Times
Shafik Quoraishee · Joanne Song
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 · 18:04
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Local reasoning within a game's frame budget
The talk contrasts finite-state game logic and reinforcement-learning systems such as EfficientZero with locally reasoning agents, examining privacy and offline operation alongside rendering budgets and 60 Hz frame constraints.
Affiliations reflect each recorded session, not necessarily current employment. The presentation concerns experimental prototypes; the speakers stated that existing New York Times puzzles were human-made and its games did not contain AI features.