This latest developement in Artificial Intelligence is yet
more proof that our jobs as writers are on the line. So clearly it's not just
waiters and chefs whose jobs may be replaced by AI controlled robots as
reported in my blog
article entitled “US$15,000
Moley Robotics Cooking Robot – Cooking Robot seeking Taste for Human Food to
take over in 2017”.
Folks play the song Mortal Combat as this looks like a
throwdown-showdown of Man vs Machine. Fight!
Turns out its perfectly possible for a computer program
called Scheherazade, can be designed to write Choose-your-own-adventure stories
as reported in the article “New
Artificial intelligence writes choose-your-own-adventure games”, published
14 September 2015 by Michelle Starr, CNET News.
Developed by Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheherazade,
in a way reminds me of the Eugene Goostman chatbot developed by Russian
Researcher Vladimir Vesolov and Ukranian Eugene Demchenko from Princeton
University as explained in my blog article
entitled “Russian
and Ukranian Research Team beat Turing Test - How to spot a chatbot online as
Eugene Goostman win suggests Turing Test for Natural Language”.
Scheherazade, named after the Arabic queen and the
storyteller heroine of 1001 Arabian Nights, was also put to a Turing Test in
which it (or she?) was fed crowdsourced stories. Her aim was to produce a
series of alternate adventure pathways from two (2) story scenarios, a bank robbery
and a movie date for a choose-your-own-adventure games and stories that were so
good that they'd be able to fool a human into thinking they were written by
humans.
So how was this Turing Test conducted?
Scheherazade AI
from Georgia Institute of Technology - Why Writers and Journalists will be
replaced by Artificial Intelligence and Robots
To make the Blind Turing Test Fair, human programmed
generators were also given the crowdsourced story components along with a
random generator that basically stitched the stories together based on context
clues. Scheherazade, being a low-level Artificial Intelligent program, can do
the same, but in a manner that mimics human original thought.
Based on the results of the test, which involved the stories
from the Scheherazade AI, the human programmed generator and the random
generator being read by three (3) separate reading groups who weren’t told
where the stories came from, she passed with flying colours.
For the bank robbery story, the results were very close in
terms of i.e. crowdsourced story components that didn't match:
1. 3
errors for Scheherazade and the human programmed generator
2. 12.5
errors for the random Generator
In the case of the movie date story, the error rate was also
very close between Scheherazade and the human programmed generator:
1. 3
errors for the human programmed generator
2. 5
errors for the Scheherazade
3. 15
errors for the random Generator
If the researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology can
improve upon their AI which has for all intents and purposes, passed the Turing
Test, then we may be looking at a very interesting way to publish a series of
Choose-your-own-adventure stories not only for books but also video games and
even Television Scripts.
Resurrecting Queen Scheherazade as an AI might also spur the
resurrection of other famous intellectual and historical figures. Isaac Newton
to teach children physics and act as a physics simulator? Einstein to re-tackle
the problems of gravity in developing a GUFT (Grand Unified Field Theory)? Picasso
AI to create even more masterpieces that the artiste would have painted had he
been alive?
More practically, Scheherazade could potentially replace the
Jobs of journalists and Writers collating stories for a newscast, possibly even
with the power of IBM Watson replace Journalists and Writers altogether in the
future. After all, our music streaming
service like Spotify use algorithms to chose the music in your streams based on
you song selection.
So a similar idea for writers and journalists doesn’t seem
too far-fetched and may be in the offing. Like I said at the beginning, AI will
make writers obsolete. This already has me excited and worried.
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