"Computers are not as smart as you think they are": The struggle of teaching AI to tell stories

Dr Lara Martin wants to teach artificial intelligence how to tell a tale and tell it well. Lara is a Computing Innovation Fellow postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches AI to generate stories and produce language that is natural and human-like. She reveals why we need to train machines how to be storytellers and what Dungeons & Dragons has to do with it all. People have been telling stories since before we could write; we're natural storytellers. So if machines were able to tell and understand stories as well, we'd be able to communicate with them more naturally.