“Georgia Tech Uses Artificial Intelligence to Crowdsource Interactive Fiction”

From the Georgia Tech:

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new artificially intelligent system that crowdsources plots for interactive stories, which are popular in video games and let players choose different branching story options.
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“Our open interactive narrative system learns genre models from crowdsourced example stories so that the player can perform different actions and still receive a coherent story experience,” says Mark Riedl, lead investigator and associate professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech.
A test of the AI system, called Scheherazade IF (Interactive Fiction) — a reference to the fabled Arabic queen and storyteller – showed that it can achieve near human-level authoring.
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The creators say that they are seeking to inject more creative scenarios into the system. Right now, the AI plays it safe with the crowdsourced content, producing what one might expect in different genres. But opportunities exist to train Scheherazade (just like its namesake implies) to surprise and immerse those in future interactive experiences.
The impact of this research can support not only online storytelling for entertainment, but also digital storytelling used in online course education or corporate training.

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See Also: The research paper mentioned in the article above, “Crowdsourcing Open Interactive Narrative” is available here (20 pages; PDF).

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