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Corny dialogue has been part of video games almost since they have existed. From 1989's Zero Wing spawning the decades old "All your base are belong to us" internet meme, to the clunky translations of the pre-remake Resident Evil games ("the master of unlocking"), to Skyrim's infamous adventurer who once took an arrow to the knee and never shuts up about it, non-playable character (NPC) dialogue has rarely been exactly Shakespearean, and the frequent repetition doesn't help. But could AI tools change that, enabling a world full of characters that respond believably when you talk to them? In collaboration with Google, a team of researchers from Stanford have built a game demo called Smallville that integrates the AI writing tool ChatGPT. Instead of just walking into walls and setting themselves on fire like the classic Sims characters we all knew and loved, the game's 25 characters can instead comfortably discuss topics such as local politics and composing music, pulling from ChatGPT's enormous database.

The U.S. Congress is not usually what we think of as the leading edge of innovation. In fact, the legislative body's collective lack of technological proficiency is often pointed to as a liability when it comes to regulating new tech. But lawmakers in Washington and around the country have increasingly been turning to software to help them write and analyze legislation. Mohar Chatterjee is a computational journalist at Politico who recently covered the issue, and she says there's pretty much just one program lawmakers all use: LegisPro. Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chatterjee about what this process looks like in practice.

As such, I have a unique dual perspective on the topic: My "I know AI" mind and my "I write" mind have strong conflicting opinions. My AI mind constantly repeats, "don't worry, AI is dumb; it can't reason or understand." But then my writing mind says, "hey, I've had problems distinguishing GPT-3 from humans before." It's at the intersection of their views that I realize both are right--partially. On the one hand, even the most sophisticated AI writing tools are--albeit impressive--nothing more than the appearance of mastery.

The script starts simply enough: A couple is at the end of dinner. Conversation winds down, the wine is almost finished. After a silence, the man says he wants to play a game. UsingGPT-3, we developed a short film script called Date Night. Tired of off-kilter AI like Cleverbot, we wanted to use more robust tech in our work.

Every day, humans produce hundreds of millions of pieces of content -- countless pictures, comments, blog posts, videos, new social media channels, every second of every day. It's a never-ending process fueled by algorithms and human interaction, and the Internet is only getting more saturated. This has led many content creators to begin asking themselves: should they use artificial intelligence to create content for them? How can they possibly keep up and compete with the flood of new, interesting, SEO-optimized content their audience sees every time they open their phone? Wouldn't it be better for a publisher's site to use the infinite scaling of AI instead of the publisher's own finite time and energy?

Did you know that over 73% of AI adopters believe that AI is now critical to their business, and furthermore 64% said that it allowed them to surpass the competition? Today, I wanted to discuss 4 ways that you can utilize AI now to improve your marketing and advertising. To prove the last point, I'm going to let AI write the rest of this newsletter starting... NOW. If you are like most people, you probably think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a recent development. However, AI has been around for quite some time now.

And then the Guardian editors took the best outputs and spliced them together into this one large op-ed." Still, according to Porr, the Guardian editors reported that the process was easier than, or at least comparable to, working with a human writer. But Parrish, an assistant arts professor at NYU who uses AI to craft verse, argues that computer-generated poetry is a new frontier in literature, allowing for serendipitous connections beyond anything human brains can create. While GPT-3 is not available for use by the general public, according to Porr, I could interact with it through a story-generating game called AI Dungeon, run by Latitude, a company purporting to make "AI a tool of creativity and freedom for everyone." Using the program, I could enter a line of text and it would produce a follow-up line that would presumably advance the plot. It's like the writing game "exquisite corpse," where a group of writers passes around a folded piece of paper on which only the previous line is visible as they construct the next line, but in this case, my co-conspirator was a computer program, trawling the internet for patterns in human-generated text, alchemizing gigabytes of language from the web into narrative. So, in fact, this tool is useless."

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. The process of writing a television show typically involves a writers room and a lot of time, as humans figure out the plot and the dialogue that makes a show work. For the cult classic Stargate science fiction franchise, which spanned three series (SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe), character and plot development was helmed by Stargate co-creator Brad Wright. In 2021, Wright publicly posted a message on Twitter asking if it was possible for AI to write an episode of Stargate that would appear on SciFi insider site The Companion. None other than Laurence Moroney, AI lead at Google, responded by picking up the gauntlet to try and prove what AI could do.–

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. The process of writing a television show typically involves a writers room and a lot of time, as humans figure out the plot and the dialogue that makes a show work. For the cult classic Stargate science fiction franchise, which spanned three series (SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe), character and plot development was helmed by Stargate co-creator Brad Wright. In 2021, Wright publicly posted a message on Twitter asking if it was possible for AI to write an episode of Stargate that would appear on SciFi insider site The Companion. None other than Laurence Moroney, AI lead at Google, responded by picking up the gauntlet to try and prove what AI could do.–