- "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."
Season 02 Episode 04
AI & Augmented Storytelling
Featuring Snigdha Chaturvedi
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.