A new way to OBJECTIVELY measure the coherence of story generation systems. Grounded in narratology and validated in controlled studies arxiv.org/abs/2104.07472
Me: that fails to converge until the programmer cleans up millions of lines of labeled data? Right! Very suspenseful! Never know if that’s going to work.
Hollywood: you’re fired
Hollywood: the AI has a robot body that—
Me: can’t pick up any objects unless they a placed in a very specific way on a table at just the right height. The struggle is real.
But it is addressable by fixing our higher education system, which is not producing enough AI/ML engineers and skewed toward a small # of elite universities.
Under the belief that there are no secret algorithms, only secret engineering, the DOD mostly needs people that can build hardened AI/ML systems (let’s ignore the question of what these systems are for for the moment).
Right now there is high demand in industry for these skills. The demand is high because when it comes to AI and ML, our education system is skewed toward a small number of elite universities that have the resources to do research and thus train graduate students in these areas.
I’m super geeked ➡️ this is video of @MatthewGuz playing a game generated by a ML algorithm trained on video of Super Mario Bros., Kirby, and Mega Man Everything is learned from scratch: level design and mechanics/rules.
What I like about this video is that the game is very different from any of the training examples.
The conceptual expansion algorithm is able to extrapolate beyond the training data, hypothesizing the existence of models that aren’t directly supported by the training data
.@MatthewGuz and I think the ability to extrapolate beyond training data is a very important quality for ML-based computational creativity.
We think conceptual expansion may be potentially important for ML generalization and domain transfer too.