This doesn't really show it in action. First off, the automatic scrolling over two separate panels makes it difficult to read the story.<p>Additionally, the page looks to be a few static snippets, instead of dynamically generated and unique to each user. That makes me suspect that these are probably cherry-picked examples.
I have a problem with procedural games in that whenever I face something new, I know it is not the process of a human creative mind. There wasn’t any intention behind that creation, there were no conscious or subconscious decisions about what that was supposed to mean, there was no human bias, no human tropes. Essentially, for me, there was no story. I lack any more understanding of the world, the humans, or the society for encountering that piece of creation. It is empty for me. Meaningless. A parade of random dice rolls thrown by a machine carefully designed to be misinterpreted as a story.<p>I feel the same about a story written by GPT-3. Or AI music creation.<p>To make myself clear, I think there is more depth in any superficial pop song composed by humans with the only purpose of earning money based in tried and tired formulas than it is ever possible to achieve in any music ever created by an AI.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator, by Roald Dahl, one of the best sci fi short stories ever. This post is the story come to life.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://bookophile.weebly.com/uploads/6/4/0/8/6408830/the_great_automatic_grammatizator_and_ot_-_roald_dahl.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjdtqvm4ZjrAhWHecAKHc35CD0QFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw1bptkvU0zYxrc6gpVjx2rX" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...</a>
This app doesn't adequately disclose that it's using GPT-3/OpenAI API, therefore making the "our magical writing AI" subheader patently false.<p>The lack of transparency is going to be a continual problem with these kinds of apps, one I've tried to encourage with my own text-generating apps with only mild success.
This example speaks for itself (please leave a comment if your jaw drops).<p>> Rohit took a tentative step out of Indira Gandhi International just as a drone sliced through the space above his head, dispersing an aromatic mist. The summer night was hot, thick, and wet.
I don't think "generate a writing prompt" is a problem that people have. Great for exercises perhaps, but if you can't generate your own ideas, picking one at random isn't going to help. Mad Libs are fun though and they tend to be funny because they're surprising and often absurd.<p>These kinds of things are great for people who fancy they might become a writer one day. It's the same as obsessing over your editor or your outline method. Nothing's going to write your story for you but a lot of "tools" are available to grant yourself the illusion of progress.
This actually makes me wonder... has anyone actually tried applying deep learning to fiction plots, whether book, film or TV?<p>I assume not, since it would presumably require a kind of manual tagging of plot elements. ("A thinks B did C. B discovers D did E. A finds out about E...")<p>But I can't help but wonder if automatic generation of plot, then characters, then dialog... could actually produce fairly realistic screenplays, at least. (Screenplays, being so compact, would be much easier than novels with their lengthy prose.)
This is exciting to see. In the start AIs will be used as assistants to human writers, but I imagine that in the future they'll progress to the point where they're able to write on their own with little to no human intervention. If programs can author books/screenplays/etc. for free, that's going to revolutionize the world of fiction. I don't think we need to get to the point of AGI to see bots that can hold their own against human authors.
There's a scene in Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast where his self-similar author character, Jubal Harshaw, dictates the first line of a story to a secretary, who happens to be an AI. While he's having a conversation, she finishes the story -- in his voice.<p>Heinlein can't be the only author to have that dream. Sudowrite seems like a step toward fulfilling it.
What I hope/expect to see in the next 10 or so years are triple A game titles similar to GTAV, that start off with a set of characters and a situation/problem, but let things develop organically from there. Not to mention realistic dialogue / realistic reactions from characters to dynamically unfolding story.
Does anyone have a good estimate what the costs for this would be? I feel like affordability might be the make or break, since the compute cost can't be that cheap, but I think it's doubtful whether the results would be worth paying a premium.
> We believe AI can unleash our creative potential.<p>Seems a little ironic given that the rest of the page is about using the creative potential of AI to lead the human in a direction it didn’t see.
This strongly falls under the realm of "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should" for me.<p>At a time when writing is being undervalued and turned into "content" grist for the mill, the last thing I want to see is writing guided by an "AI" down the same old pathways.