Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers

ISBN-13: 9780367751975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 180 str.

Mike Sharples;Y. P

Opis

In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers.

Recenzje

"A masterful and highly accessible overview of exciting developments in computer-generated literature by two experts in the field."

Arthur I. Miller, author of The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity

"Story Machines is a lot of fun to read. It's a fascinating cultural and technological history of the centuries-long attempt to automate creative writing. It is also an exploration of what makes writing good: interesting characters; intriguing relationships; surprising events and plots; and aesthetically pleasing prose. Ultimately, Story Machines is about human creativity."

Keith Sawyer, author of Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation

"Software that writes stories? A fascinating insight into how computers are learning to replicate the power of human imagination. Sharples and Pérez y Pérez are experts in the field of computational creativity. Their insights into language, story structure and the replication of human creativity map a journey in which computers could create future stories that change behaviours and beliefs. The ethics of how these are enabled, engaged and deployed will be a debated for years to come."

Vikki Kirby, Chief Storyteller, Vibrato Consulting

"Stories have been computer-generated for decades by a curious assortment of programmers, artists, and authors. Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez tell their stories, providing a rich, broad history that will interest and inform anyone interested in the future of literary art."

Nick Montfort, author/programmer of Golem

Spis treści

Preface, Chapter 1. Can a computer write a story?, Chapter 2. Human story machines, Chapter 3. Artificial versifying, Chapter 4. Automatic novel writers, Chapter 5. The shape of a story, Chapter 6. The program that swallowed the internet, Chapter 7. Storyworlds, Chapter 8. Being creative, Chapter 9. Modelling the mind of a writer, Chapter 10. Build your own story generator, Chapter 11. Capacity for empathy, Notes, Further reading