Interview explores how AI can assist storytelling, highlighting control versus surprise in creation.
Can AI help tell stories? And if so, how can it do so? Is it better for the “writing assistant” to be fully controllable and transparent, or is it more useful for it to be able to surprise us? These are some of the questions that emerge from this interview with Piotr Mirowski on Fabula, an AI tool that enables the creation and editing of stories through large language models.
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