www.aiandgames.com www.patreon.com/ai_and_games In September 2015 we gave a talk at the Rezzed sessions of the EGX 2015 event in the NEC in Birmingham, UK. In this talk, we aimed at establishing 'what' AI research is, why people do it and what are the big issues we are tackling in this modern day. A write-up of the lecture can be found over on AIandGames at: http://aiandgames.com/why-science-loves-gaming/