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Morgan McGuire

Independent Researcher & Advisor, Casual Effects. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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McGuire led research and AI initiatives as Chief Scientist at Roblox and previously directed hyperscale graphics research at NVIDIA, following years as a tenured professor at Williams College. A prominent figure in 3D graphics, he co-authored the textbooks Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice and Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology.

1shows
1appearances
16statements
6resolved
1supported
2contradicted
17%fully supported

Everything Morgan McGuire said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Every human interaction on Roblox is monitored by technology
“Every communication between humans is monitored, monitored by technology.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 17:49 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Insight
McGuire: AI advances stem from data preparation, not new models
“A lot of the learnings in AI are not on the technology side. It's not about creating a new AI model from scratch. It's about learning how to prepare data, how to augment the data so that you don't need quite as much of it, learning how to normalize or regulari…”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 42:26 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
McGuire: AI will take decades before its full impact is felt
“The core technology has decades before the full impact is felt.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 14:32 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Contradicted
McGuire: Roblox is the only platform allowing instant, unapproved 3D publishing
“And so it's the only platform where you can do for three D what today you can do for micro blogging, like text or images, which is one person without some sort of app store approval, without becoming a publisher, or that's, you can go and create something that…”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 6:47 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox AI Code Assist has suggested 300M characters of code
“Three hundred million characters of code have been suggested by this tool.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 24:00 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Disclosure
McGuire: Roblox released its code-generation LLM as fully open source
“And so we shared our LLM with the world that we had built as fully open source that anybody could build on it.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 25:03 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Controlling generative AI will be AI's main challenge for 2–3 years
“I think the big challenge that the field is facing probably in the next two or three years that we've been focusing on is how do you control generative AI?”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 34:51 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Opinion
McGuire: Interactive 3D is the ultimate form of media
“Text is hard video images, but the three D is the ultimate making interactive three D that there is no thing past that. That's the ultimate media.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 50:09 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Partly supported
McGuire: Roblox has around 70 million daily active users
“We have about seventy million daily active users”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 1:32 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Supported
McGuire: Roblox's fastest growing segment is 17-to-24-year-olds
“And our fastest growing segment is actually 17 to 24 year olds,”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 3:00 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox operates roughly 100,000 servers on custom infrastructure
“We have about a 100,000 servers that we maintain with our own infrastructure running our own software stack on those.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 3:37 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Roblox releases new client software to all players every Thursday
“Every single Thursday, we ship a new client to every single player around the world, releasing new features new access, new security mechanisms.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 12:32 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Contradicted
McGuire: Roblox releases a new AI feature every couple of weeks
“Every, every couple of weeks we're releasing a new AI powered feature.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 20:19 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Roblox operates 17 edge data centers globally
“We have edge data centers around the world. I think we're up to 17 of those”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 3:58 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Partly supported
McGuire: Roblox employs around 3,000 total workforce members
“So the company as a whole is about 3000 people at this point.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 4:48 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGuire: Almost all Roblox employees are engineers or engineering-adjacent
“And it's heavily engineering dominated. So almost all of that is engineers or engineer associated professions.”
Morgan McGuire Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 4:54 AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox

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