1. Introduction This article is designed to give people with no computer science background some insight into how ChatGPT and similar AI systems work (GPT-3, GPT-4, Bing Chat, Bard, etc). ChatGPT is a chatbot — a type of conversational AI built — but on top of a Large Language Model. Those are…

Contributing authors (alphabetical): Amal Alabdulkarim, Louis Castricato, Siyan Li, and Xiangyu Peng. Updated: June 28, 2021 I research (among other things) automated story generation. I have not taught my course on AI storytelling in a number of years. I have put this primer together as a resource that I think…

The following is a collection of thoughts that I put together on the topic of AI democratization. Some of the points below were quoted in an article by OneZero, an online technology reporting outfit: https://onezero.medium.com/gpt-3-is-an-amazing-research-tool-openai-isnt-sharing-the-code-d048ba39bbfd To me, AI democratization means making it possible for everyone to create artificial intelligence systems…

On Friday, December 28th Netflix aired a special episode of their Black Mirror series called Bandersnatch. What made Bandersnatch interesting is that it was an interactive story: watchers could use a remote control to choose options at various points throughout the story’s progression to influence character choice and plot progression. …

On November 11, 2018, regulators in the US announced a review of export controls across a range of emerging technologies. The list includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as technologies that would make substantial use of AI and ML such as robotics and brain-computer interfaces, and enabling technologies…

Computational creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviors that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. Machine learning (ML) has shown promise for many creative tasks such as music generation, image and painting generation, image style transfer, etc…

This post is based on the keynote talk I gave at the 10th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. The slides are here. In the talk, I presented a history of the workshop series, but this post will focus on broader themes. Introduction Storytelling is an important part of how we, as…

(The following is adapted from a paper by Lara Martin and Brent Harrison, Improvisational Computational Storytelling in Open Worlds, presented at the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.) Introduction Storytelling has been of interest to artificial intelligence researchers since the earliest days of the field. Artificial intelligence research has addressed…

The term Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is a recognition that the future is increasingly putting humans in contact with artificial intelligences. At the heart of human-centered AI is the recognition that the way AI systems solve problems — especially using machine learning — is fundamentally alien to humans without training in…