Visual storytelling is an interdisciplinary field combining computer vision and natural language processing to generate cohesive narratives from sequences of images. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages recent advancements in multimodal models, specifically adapting transformer-based architectures and large multimodal models, for the visual storytelling task. Leveraging the large-scale Visual Storytelling (VIST) dataset, our VIST-GPT model produces visually grounded, contextually appropriate narratives. W e address the limitations of traditional evaluation metrics, such as BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, and CIDEr, which are not suitable for this task. Instead, we utilize RoViST and GROOVIST, novel reference-free metrics designed to assess visual storytelling, focus - ing on visual grounding, coherence, and non-redundancy. These metrics provide a more nuanced evaluation of narrative quality, aligning closely with human judgment.

It is now more or less impossible to put a precise figure on the number of video games released each year. According to data published by the digital store Steam, almost 19,000 titles were released in 2024 – and that's just on one platform. Hundreds more arrived on consoles and smartphones. In some ways this is the positive sign of a vibrant industry, but how on earth does a new project get noticed? When Triple A titles with multimillion dollar marketing budgets are finding it hard to gain attention (disappointing sales have been reported for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the Final Fantasy VII remakes and EA Sports FC), what chance is there for a small team to break out?

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We address the problem of visual storytelling, i.e., generating a story for a given sequence of images. While each sentence of the story should describe a corresponding image, a coherent story also needs to be consistent and relate to both future and past images. To achieve this we develop ordered image attention (OIA). OIA models interactions between the sentence-corresponding image and important regions in other images of the sequence. To highlight the important objects, a message-passing-like algorithm collects representations of those objects in an order-aware manner. To generate the story's sentences, we then highlight important image attention vectors with an Image-Sentence Attention (ISA). Further, to alleviate common linguistic mistakes like repetitiveness, we introduce an adaptive prior. The obtained results improve the METEOR score on the VIST dataset by 1%. In addition, an extensive human study verifies coherency improvements and shows that OIA and ISA generated stories are more focused, shareable, and image-grounded.

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A Google engineer is speaking out since the company placed him on administrative leave after he told his bosses an artificial intelligence program he was working with is now sentient. Blake Lemoine reached his conclusion after conversing since last fall with LaMDA, Google's artificially intelligent chatbot generator, what he calls part of a "hive mind." He was supposed to test if his conversation partner used discriminatory language or hate speech. As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about "personhood" and "rights," he told The Washington Post. It was just one of the many startling "talks" Lemoine has had with LaMDA.

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We propose the task of Narrative Reordering(NAREOR) which involves rewriting a given story in a different narrative order while preserving its plot, semantic, and temporal aspects. We present a dataset, NAREORC, with over 1000 human rewritings of stories within ROCStories in non-linear orders, and conduct a detailed analysis of it. Further, we propose novel initial task-specific training methods and evaluation metrics. We perform experiments on NAREORC using GPT-2 and Transformer models and conduct an extensive human evaluation. We demonstrate that NAREOR is a challenging task with potential for further exploration.

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