Computer Tales

http://reyfarhan.com/posts/gpt2-dj/

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/05/28/how-baidus-ai-produces-news-videos-using-just-a-url/

https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/02/web-semantics-microsoft-project-turing-introduces-turing-natural-language-generation-t-nlg/

The site is called TalkToTransformer.com, and it’s the creation of Canadian engineer Adam King. King made the site, but the underlying technology comes from research lab OpenAI. Earlier this year, OpenAI unveiled its new AI language system, GPT-2, and TalkToTransformer is a slimmed-down, accessible version of that same technology, which has been made accessible only to select scientists and journalists in the past. (The name “transformer” refers to the type of neural network used by GPT-2 and other systems.)

We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization — all without task-specific training.

Designed to support the creation of new works of computational literature, the RiTa† library provides tools for artists and writers working with natural language in programmable media. The library is designed to be simple while still enabling a range of powerful features, from grammar and Markov-based generation to text-mining, to feature-analysis (part-of-speech, phonemes, stresses, etc). All RiTa functions are heuristic and do not require training data, thus making the core library quite compact. RiTa can also be integrated with its own user-customisable lexicon, or with the WordNet database. RiTa is implemented in both Java and JavaScript, is free/libre and open-source, and runs in a number of popular programming environments including Android, Processing, Node, and p5.js.

Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science.[1]

At present though, the best choice seems to have personality modules inserted by editors and creative writers. Which makes creative editors/writers remarkably relevant in the age of conversational bots. If you are a writer this should excite you. Think of all the conversations written for MMORPGs or RPGs — a decision tree of powerful sentences can tell a powerful story.

Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) are a spoken or written way of interacting with a device. CUIs aren’t completely new, but they’re becoming smarter, more natural, and — therefore — more useful.