AI & Augmented Storytelling

Creative Next: AI Automation at Work

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Artificial intelligence already writes stock and minor league sports blurbs. Is storytelling next? AI researcher Snigdha Chaturvedi joins Dirk and Jon to share her research projects developing AI augmented storytelling tools.

AI researcher Snigdha Chaturvedi joins Dirk and Jon to share details from her research projects over the years, building toward AI that can eventually tell original stories. We learn about challenges faced in her work, limitations with the current technology, and how AI storytelling with augment professional writers and amateur non-writers in the near future.

Memorable Quotes

"The creativity and expertise of AI-based generation system would enable amateur writers to express themselves in an interesting and professional manner. So, essentially, everybody could be a writer."

"AI writing will certainly make the job of professional writers much easier."

"If you want your newsfeed to know what kind of relations you are in with different people and then present only those things that are of interest to that specific relationship, the algorithm that is generating that newsfeed needs to be aware of the type of relationship that you have with your dad versus the type of relationship that you have with your colleague."

"We are trying to make a machine collaborate with humans to generate a short story."

"The mathematical representations make it difficult for even human experts or scientists to decipher how exactly the system is working."

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Snigdha Chaturvedi, AI Researcher, [email protected]

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