AI & Augmented Storytelling
07/09/19 • 53 min
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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Twitter: @GoCreativeNext
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Sponsors
GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com
Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org
BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is
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]
Join The Conversation
Website & Newsletter: www.creativenext.org
Twitter: @GoCreativeNext
Facebook: /GoCreativeNext
Instagram: @GoCreativeNext
Sponsors
GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com
Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org
BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is
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NLP - Natural Language Processing
The human voice is helping to drive the future of automation. Systran and Adobe veteran Shivali Goel joins Dirk and Jon to explain how Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is powering the AI of today and tomorrow.
Natural Language Processing researcher Shivali Goel joins Dirk and Jon to go deep into this crucial technology. We learn about what Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is, how it powers software, AI, and automation, and discover some of the cutting-edge applications that NLP is driving today.
Memorable Quotes
"For example, if I say 'Kids make nutritious snacks', what do you understand? Are the children cooking something nutritious? Or that they themselves are a nutritious snack?"
"Instant voice translation is making language no longer a barrier. I can talk to you in Hindi and you can hear the same content in English."
"NLP is basically math and statistics with elements of linguistics."
"A person got arrested in Iraq because his Facebook translated his 'good morning' to 'attack them'."
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)
Shivali Goel, Natural Language Processing Researcher (@shivugoel)
Join The Conversation
Website & Newsletter: www.creativenext.org
Twitter: @GoCreativeNext
Facebook: /GoCreativeNext
Instagram: @GoCreativeNext
Sponsors
GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com
Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org
BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is
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Computational Media Creation
Deep fakes are here, a result of astounding innovation in computational media creation. Stanford professor Maneesh Agrawala joins Dirk and Jon to talk about advances in and challenges with machine creation of video and journalism.
Maneesh Agrawala, Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University, joins Dirk and Jon to discuss key issues in the computational creation of media, such as video and journalism. While these sorts of technologies famously contribute to the creation of things like deep fakes, those perversions are based off groundbreaking and assistive work that promises to make the process of creating communication media, whether written or visual, more efficient and effective.
Memorable Quotes
"We've been thinking a lot about where computational tools could be used by journalists, to make their jobs easier and better."
"When you have a manipulated video, it should be clear that it has been manipulated."
"There have been incidents in other countries, in India, for example, where video that was untrue caused riots."
"One way to rebuild the trust is to be more transparent about the news production process."
"The idea is to use VR to help people embody someone who is very different from them."
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)
Maneesh Agrawala, Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University (@magrawala)
Join The Conversation
Website & Newsletter: www.creativenext.org
Twitter: @GoCreativeNext
Facebook: /GoCreativeNext
Instagram: @GoCreativeNext
Sponsors
GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com
Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org
BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is
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