This post is inspired by the recent announcement that the Google AI team beat the current Go world champion. This presentation is fairly old (2011 I think), but the themes discussed around 1:05:30 or so seems almost exactly like what Casey plans to do with his interactive fiction project. Anyways, I thought it was a cool connection and figured I'd share:

https://youtu.be/xC5ZtPazvF0?t=1h5m51s