Language models are increasingly attracting interest from writers. However, such models lack long-range semantic coherence, limiting their usefulness for longform creative writing. We address this limitation by applying language models hierarchically, in a system we call Dramatron. By building structural context via prompt chaining, Dramatron can generate coherent scripts and screenplays complete with title, characters, story beats, location descriptions, and dialogue. We illustrate Dramatron’s usefulness as an interactive co-creative system with a user study of 15 theatre and film industry professionals. Participants co-wrote theatre scripts and screenplays with Dramatron and engaged in open-ended interviews. We report critical reflections both from our interviewees and from independent reviewers who watched stagings of the works to illustrate how both Dramatron and hierarchical text generation could be useful for human-machine co-creativity. Finally, we discuss the suitability of Dramatron for co-creativity, ethical considerations—including plagiarism and bias—and participatory models for the design and deployment of such tools. Read More
#nlpMonthly Archives: December 2022
AlphaCode can solve complex problems and create code using AI
A novel system called AlphaCode uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create computer code, and has recently participated in programming competitions, using critical thinking, algorithms, and natural language comprehension. The AI system performed extremely well in competitions.
AlphaCode is an AI software system created by DeepMind, a subsidiary of the company Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The software generates code in Python or C++, while filtering out any bad coding. It has the ability to generate code at an exceptional rate. Read More
Google’s Simple ML for Sheets add-on can predict missing and spot abnormal values
Google today announced an add-on for Google Sheets that applies “Simple ML” to your data that was built by the TensorFlow team to help make “machine learning accessible to all.”
Anyone, even people without programming or ML expertise, can experiment and apply some of the power of machine learning to their data in Google Sheets with just a few clicks. From small business owners, scientists, and students to business analysts at large corporations, anyone familiar with Google Sheets can make valuable predictions automatically. Read More
‘Alexa, let’s make a story’: Amazon introduces a new feature that turns your Echo device into a storytelling companion
Introducing ‘Create with Alexa,’ a new feature that lets you craft and tell whimsical stories using your Echo Show, at bedtime or anytime.
Parents know the drill well. It’s bedtime, the kids are going to sleep, but tonight, they don’t want to just hear you read from a book. They want to come up with a story with music and visuals. Your brain starts sifting through characters they like and plausible plots avoiding dead ends. What if a new feature on a smart device could help?
Such a feature now exists on Amazon’s Echo Show devices. “Create with Alexa” uses advances in conversational and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to empower young storytellers to build unique stories with a narrative arc, colorful graphics, and fun, complementary background music. The animated stories then come to life on the screen of your Echo Show devices. Read More
AI Film Festival
Introducing the first annual AI Film Festival – powered by Runway. A celebration of the art and artists making the impossible at the forefront of AI filmmaking.
All films will be reviewed by our panel of globally renowned filmmakers, creators and AI innovators. Finalists will be showcased with a screening at one of New York’s most beloved emerging film spaces and will be eligible for $10,000+ in prizes. Read More
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’
Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The site’s mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination. Read More
TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights.
16 major domestic airports are testing facial recognition tech to verify IDs — and it could go nationwide in 2023
Next time you’re at airport security, get ready to look straight into a camera. The TSA wants to analyze your face.
The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic airports — from Washington to Los Angeles — and hopes to expand it across the United States as soon as next year. Kiosks with cameras are doing a job that used to be completed by humans: checking the photos on travelers’ IDs to make sure they’re not impostors. Read More
TechScape: Enter the multiverse – the chat-room game made of AI art
An exciting multiplayer Discord game asks you to find things in the multiverse through an AI image generator. The hallucinatory results could mark a new frontier for AI art
The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration is an unusual workplace. Maude Fletcher’s alright, though she needs to learn how to turn off caps lock in the company chat. But trying to deal with Byron G Snodgrass is like handling an energetic poodle, and Phil is a bit stiff.
Sorry, that was unclear. Byron G Snodgrass is an energetic poodle. Phil is a plant. A peace lily, I think.
… The BMA is the setting, and title, of a … thing, created by game company Aconite, helmed by Nadya Lev and Star St.Germain. I say “thing” because it’s not clear how best to describe what the pair have made. Calling it a video game summons up all the wrong impressions, but it’s hardly an experience or a toy, either. A larp (live-action roleplay) might be closer if it was live action, but it’s not: BMA is played in a Discord channel, the gamer-focused chat app standing in for the Bureau’s internal slack. St.Germain calls it a “Discord game”, which works well enough.
The Multiversal Search Engine at the core of the game is actually a carefully managed version of the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. Players are given assignments – like finding that dessert – which they use as prompts for the image generator, competing with enough others to generate the best responses, with the winning creation, voted on by all players, being stuck on the virtual fridge for everyone to see – and, if you’re lucky, praised by Maude. Read More
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Event: Everything Revealed in 10 Minutes
The Streets Are Watching
The internet is saturated with hyper-targeted advertising that draws on users’ browsing habits, their interactions with the web and assumptions made about them by online advertisers.
Now these personalised online ads are reaching out of our screens and following us onto the streets, as profiling and predictive analytics are used to determine not just the sponsored post in your Twitter feed, but what is shown on a digital billboard on your walk to work. This is the new era of advertising surveillance.
Billboard advertising is becoming increasingly data-driven with high-tech tools beingused to make sure that screens show the right adverts at the right time of day. From facial detection algorithms used to tailor displays to massive data gathering operations that aggregate information collected from our phones with other sources to model exactly who will pass by a billboard and when, the physical advertising space is becoming ever more personalised and intrusive. Read More
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