Stories move us emotionally by physically moving their protagonists, from place to place or from state to state. The most psychologically compelling stories are stories of change, in which characters learn and evolve as they fulfil their dreams or become what they most despise. Character-driven stories must do more than maneouver their protagonists as game pieces on a board, but move them along arcs that transform their inner qualities. This presentation describes the Flux Capacitor, a generator of transformative character arcs that are both intuitive and dramatically interesting. These arcs – which define a conceptual start-point and end-point for a character in a narrative – may be translated into short story pitches or used as inputs to an existing story-generator. A corpus-based means of constructing novel arcs is presented, as are criteria for selecting and filtering arcs for well-formedness, plausibility and interestingness. Characters can thus, in this way, be computationally modeled as dynamic blends that unfold along a narrative trajectory.
If you use WordPress, you need to know about Gutenberg, the project underway to change how content is created and managed in everyone's favorite web publishing application. This slide deck is from Morten Rand-Hendriksen's WordCamp US 2017 presentation "Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow" where he outlines what Gutenberg is now and what WordPress will be in the future.
Unweaving the lexical rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual ...Tony Veale
The challenge of linguistic creativity is to use words in a way that is novel and striking and even whimsical, to convey meanings that remain stubbornly grounded in the very same world of familiar experiences as serves to anchor the most literal and unimaginative language. The challenge remains unmet by systems that merely shuttle or arrange words to achieve novel arrangements without concern as to how those arrangements are to spur the processes of meaning construction in a reader. In this paper we explore a problem of lexical invention that cannot be solved without an explicit model of the perceptual grounding of language: the invention of apt new names for colours. To solve this problem we shall call upon the notion of a linguistic readymade, a phrase that is wrenched from its original context of use to be given new meaning and new resonance in new settings. To ensure that our linguistic readymades, which owe a great deal to Marcel Duchamp’s notion of found art, are anchored in a consensus model of perception, we introduce the notion of a lexicalized colour stereotype.
Twitter has proven itself a rich and varied source of language data for linguistic analysis. For Twitter is more than a popular new channel for social interaction in language; in many ways it constitutes a whole new genre of text, as users adapt to its new limitations (140 character messages) and to its novel conventions such as retweeting and hash-tagging. But Twitter presents an opportunity of another kind to computationally-minded researchers of language, a generative opportunity to study how algorithmic systems might exploit linguistic tropes to compose novel, concise and re-tweetable texts of their own. This paper evaluates one such system, a Twitterbot named @MetaphorMagnet that packages its own metaphors and ironic observations as pithy tweets. Moreover, we use @MetaphorMagnet, and the idea of Twitterbots more generally, to explore the relationship of linguistic containers to their contents, to understand the extent to which human readers fill these containers with their own meanings, to see meaning in the outputs of generative systems where none was ever intended. We evaluate this placebo effect by asking human raters to judge the comprehensibility, novelty and aptness of texts tweeted by simple and sophisticated Twitterbots.
2015 Code Camp on Computational CreativityTony Veale
The PROSECCO network (an EC-funded project for the PROmotion of the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity) is organizing a computational creativity code camp in Coimbra, Portugal (January 12-15, 2015). This presentation introduces the challenge that participants will address in groups: build a creative Twitterbot that can generate its own interesting micro-fiction using a large knowedge-base of facts about real historical people and fictional characters.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
This presentation surveys work done on the EC-funded WHIM project (The What-If Machine) by the UCD partner, lead by Tony Veale. WHIM focuses on computational creativity and automated ideation, that is, the construction of autonomous software that can generate, filter and package its own original ideas.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
If you use WordPress, you need to know about Gutenberg, the project underway to change how content is created and managed in everyone's favorite web publishing application. This slide deck is from Morten Rand-Hendriksen's WordCamp US 2017 presentation "Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow" where he outlines what Gutenberg is now and what WordPress will be in the future.
Unweaving the lexical rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual ...Tony Veale
The challenge of linguistic creativity is to use words in a way that is novel and striking and even whimsical, to convey meanings that remain stubbornly grounded in the very same world of familiar experiences as serves to anchor the most literal and unimaginative language. The challenge remains unmet by systems that merely shuttle or arrange words to achieve novel arrangements without concern as to how those arrangements are to spur the processes of meaning construction in a reader. In this paper we explore a problem of lexical invention that cannot be solved without an explicit model of the perceptual grounding of language: the invention of apt new names for colours. To solve this problem we shall call upon the notion of a linguistic readymade, a phrase that is wrenched from its original context of use to be given new meaning and new resonance in new settings. To ensure that our linguistic readymades, which owe a great deal to Marcel Duchamp’s notion of found art, are anchored in a consensus model of perception, we introduce the notion of a lexicalized colour stereotype.
Twitter has proven itself a rich and varied source of language data for linguistic analysis. For Twitter is more than a popular new channel for social interaction in language; in many ways it constitutes a whole new genre of text, as users adapt to its new limitations (140 character messages) and to its novel conventions such as retweeting and hash-tagging. But Twitter presents an opportunity of another kind to computationally-minded researchers of language, a generative opportunity to study how algorithmic systems might exploit linguistic tropes to compose novel, concise and re-tweetable texts of their own. This paper evaluates one such system, a Twitterbot named @MetaphorMagnet that packages its own metaphors and ironic observations as pithy tweets. Moreover, we use @MetaphorMagnet, and the idea of Twitterbots more generally, to explore the relationship of linguistic containers to their contents, to understand the extent to which human readers fill these containers with their own meanings, to see meaning in the outputs of generative systems where none was ever intended. We evaluate this placebo effect by asking human raters to judge the comprehensibility, novelty and aptness of texts tweeted by simple and sophisticated Twitterbots.
2015 Code Camp on Computational CreativityTony Veale
The PROSECCO network (an EC-funded project for the PROmotion of the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity) is organizing a computational creativity code camp in Coimbra, Portugal (January 12-15, 2015). This presentation introduces the challenge that participants will address in groups: build a creative Twitterbot that can generate its own interesting micro-fiction using a large knowedge-base of facts about real historical people and fictional characters.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
This presentation surveys work done on the EC-funded WHIM project (The What-If Machine) by the UCD partner, lead by Tony Veale. WHIM focuses on computational creativity and automated ideation, that is, the construction of autonomous software that can generate, filter and package its own original ideas.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
The names we give to colors tell us as much about the namer as about the color itself. With so many hues and shades to choose from, a good color needs a good name. Just look at how paint companies like Dulux name their colors. Can we build a software agent, in the form of a Twitterbot, that invents meaningful and apt (if mischievous and sometimes rude) names for real colors? This presentation outlines the task of building a lexical invention system that assigns clever new names to colors and tweets the results on Twitter.
These slides guide you through the basics of setting up a Twitter App and obtaining the necessary authorization keys, so that, for instance, you can build your own Twitterbot.
SemEval 2015 Task 11: Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in TwitterTony Veale
This presentation summarizes the objectives and evaluation of the SemEval 2015 task on the sentiment analysis of figurative language on Twitter (Task 11). This is the first sentiment analysis task wholly dedicated to analyzing figurative language on Twitter. Specifically, three broad classes of figurative language are considered: irony, sarcasm and metaphor. Gold standard sets of 8000 training tweets and 4000 test tweets were annotated using workers on the crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower. Participating systems were required to provide a fine-grained sentiment score on an 11-point scale (-5 to +5, including 0 for neutral intent) for each tweet, and systems were evaluated against the gold standard using both a Cosine-similarity and a Mean-Squared-Error measure
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
Creative Twitterbots are software agents that have their own world views, formulate their own opinions and tweet their own original messages. This Tutorial considers what it means for a text to be creative, briefly surveys the emerging technology of Twitterbots, and describes the workings of a creative metaphor-generating Twitterbot called @MetaphorMagnet
The Mirror Makers: Sustaining Human Creative Communities With Machines That M...Tony Veale
TEDx Talk (From 2015 TEDx Osnabruck event on Facets of Sustainability) on Computational Creativity, and the role of creative machines in sustaining human creativity.
By treating metaphor as a solution and not a problem, and as a service or a tool rather than a task or an anomaly, computers can use metaphorical web services to do more than just understand or generate metaphors. It can use metaphors to generate creative blends, and from these blends a machine can generate original plot lines and satirical stories. This presentation overviews work at the UCD metaphor lab on using metaphor to generate original ideas and turn these ideas into original stories and tweets,
An illustrated lecture introducing key concepts in the emerging field of Computational Creativity.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
Tutorial on Creative Metaphor ProcessingTony Veale
Metaphor is both a rhetorical device and a cognitive lever. It allows us to make the familiar seem strange and the strange feel familiar. It allows us to use our knowledge of a well-understood domain to structure and fill-out a domain in which we are less knowledgeable, or for which we lack the established terminology. In short, metaphor gives new life to our words, and new power to our concepts.
The tutorial focuses on the computational processing of metaphor: how might a computer understand a metaphor, and how might a computer generate meaningful and novel metaphors of its own?
Metaphors in Qualitative Research & SynthesisCyd Harrell
Originally delivered at UI21 in Boston in 2016, a talk on how to elicit apt metaphors from research participants and from a research team in the process of synthesis, for greater understanding.
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The names we give to colors tell us as much about the namer as about the color itself. With so many hues and shades to choose from, a good color needs a good name. Just look at how paint companies like Dulux name their colors. Can we build a software agent, in the form of a Twitterbot, that invents meaningful and apt (if mischievous and sometimes rude) names for real colors? This presentation outlines the task of building a lexical invention system that assigns clever new names to colors and tweets the results on Twitter.
These slides guide you through the basics of setting up a Twitter App and obtaining the necessary authorization keys, so that, for instance, you can build your own Twitterbot.
SemEval 2015 Task 11: Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in TwitterTony Veale
This presentation summarizes the objectives and evaluation of the SemEval 2015 task on the sentiment analysis of figurative language on Twitter (Task 11). This is the first sentiment analysis task wholly dedicated to analyzing figurative language on Twitter. Specifically, three broad classes of figurative language are considered: irony, sarcasm and metaphor. Gold standard sets of 8000 training tweets and 4000 test tweets were annotated using workers on the crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower. Participating systems were required to provide a fine-grained sentiment score on an 11-point scale (-5 to +5, including 0 for neutral intent) for each tweet, and systems were evaluated against the gold standard using both a Cosine-similarity and a Mean-Squared-Error measure
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
Creative Twitterbots are software agents that have their own world views, formulate their own opinions and tweet their own original messages. This Tutorial considers what it means for a text to be creative, briefly surveys the emerging technology of Twitterbots, and describes the workings of a creative metaphor-generating Twitterbot called @MetaphorMagnet
The Mirror Makers: Sustaining Human Creative Communities With Machines That M...Tony Veale
TEDx Talk (From 2015 TEDx Osnabruck event on Facets of Sustainability) on Computational Creativity, and the role of creative machines in sustaining human creativity.
By treating metaphor as a solution and not a problem, and as a service or a tool rather than a task or an anomaly, computers can use metaphorical web services to do more than just understand or generate metaphors. It can use metaphors to generate creative blends, and from these blends a machine can generate original plot lines and satirical stories. This presentation overviews work at the UCD metaphor lab on using metaphor to generate original ideas and turn these ideas into original stories and tweets,
An illustrated lecture introducing key concepts in the emerging field of Computational Creativity.
Computational Creativity is the scientific study of the creative potential of machines: to determine whether machines can indeed be creative, it aims to build generative machines and programs that exhibit human-scale creativity.
Tutorial on Creative Metaphor ProcessingTony Veale
Metaphor is both a rhetorical device and a cognitive lever. It allows us to make the familiar seem strange and the strange feel familiar. It allows us to use our knowledge of a well-understood domain to structure and fill-out a domain in which we are less knowledgeable, or for which we lack the established terminology. In short, metaphor gives new life to our words, and new power to our concepts.
The tutorial focuses on the computational processing of metaphor: how might a computer understand a metaphor, and how might a computer generate meaningful and novel metaphors of its own?
Metaphors in Qualitative Research & SynthesisCyd Harrell
Originally delivered at UI21 in Boston in 2016, a talk on how to elicit apt metaphors from research participants and from a research team in the process of synthesis, for greater understanding.
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Appointment in Samarra: Bicameral Story-telling botsTony Veale
Generating stories is a tricky business. Plot must be integrated with character so that causality becomes destiny. This presentation considers some high-minded and low-cunning implementation techniques for story-telling in Tracery and CheapBotsDoneQuick.
Presented at ICCC'2018, the International Conference on Computational Creativity, at Salamanca, Spain, June 27, 2018.
A giant sarcastic robot? What a Great Idea!Tony Veale
Slideshow from paper published/presented at ICCC 2018, the international conference on Computational Creativity, Salamanca, Spain, June 29th. An exploration of two ways of automatically generating ironic statements.
Building a sense of humour: The Robot's guide to Humorous IncongruityTony Veale
Lecture 4 in the 2018 IK course "Me, Myself and AI". Covers theories of humour, incongruity resolution, acquisition of vivid mental images and framing of humorous conceits
West of Eden: Building Characters with PersonalityTony Veale
Lecture 3 in the 2018 IK course "Me, Myself and AI". Covers the bicameral theory of consciousness, character and plot development in narrative, character as destiny, automated story generation. Employs the TV show WestWorld as a source of talking points.
Pizza maker: A Tutorial on Building TwitterbotsTony Veale
A simple introduction to building creative Twitter "bots" with Tracery and CheapBotsDoneQuick.com that explores the specific topic of pizza construction, naming and recommendation.
Design patterns: An Introduction to Software Design PatternsTony Veale
An introduction to software design patterns that emphasises the relationship between software engineering and other creative domains when it comes to distilling the wisdom of experience.
Better than the real thing: AI at the MoviesTony Veale
A Lecture on the Science and Fiction of Artificial Intelligence, the first of four given at IK'2017, the Interdisciplinary College event held in Gunne, Germany, March 2017. The other lectures here are Divine Sparks, Apt Pupils, and Mechanical Miuses
A lecture on machine morality and consciousness (as seen in the movies) from IK 2017, the Interdisciplinary College event in Gunne, Germany, March 2017
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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10. Linguistic constructs like the simile frame
“as ADJ as a NOUN”
allow us to harvest knowledge of stereo- typical properties from the Web.
These are from the Google n-grams.
11. We can use
metaphors to understand how properties align and change, so that one concept can virtually become
another.
Creative metaphors are commodities that computers can generate at Web Scale via
CC Web
Services!
12. Metaphor Magnet suggests metaphors on demand for given topics or topic pairs.
It finds conventional metaphors in large Web corpora and elaborates them via rich stereotypes.
15. Metaphor Magnet uses Web n- grams to appreciate which concepts are best imagined as the start state of a transformation, and which are better suited to being the end state. The goal is to produce character arcs that are jarring for the right reasons!
16. businessman
millionaire
tech geek
pauper
If we take @MetaphorMagnet’s metaphors seriously, as literal statements of becoming, we obtain What-If scenarios in which our story characters undergo surprising but apt changes.
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Property-level transformations:
dashingdrab happymiserable richpoor richskint ostentatiousunpretentious pamperedpoor privilegeddestitute privilegedpoor richbroke richdesperate richdestitute richmiserable spoiledpoor wealthybroke wealthydestitute wealthypoor
So what if a millionaire …
… became a pauper?
A Lexical Database of Antonyms (e.g. WordNet) allows us to align the contrasting properties of two stereotypical representations.
18. Millionaire maddened by mansions, walks into workhouses
Millionaire rejects richness, hungers for hopelessness
Millionaire goes from being apparently dashing to increasingly drab
Millionaire's fake happiness masked true hardship
Millionaire goes from living in mansions
to living in shacks and slums
Millionaire goes from living in ornate and luxurious mansions
to living in wretched and Spartan slums
Millionaire goes from living in magnificent and swanky mansions
to living in miserable and wretched slums
Millionaire goes from ostentatious to unpretentious
Millionaire's private pampering masked by outer poverty
Millionaire's artificial privilege masked genuine deprivation
Millionaire's public wealth masked pervasive poverty
Millionaire's false wealth masked genuine deprivation
“Story pitch” Summarization via Automated Headlines
19. A twitterbot using the Metaphor Magnet Web-service to tweet a new hard- boiled metaphor every hour!
20. A chain of causal triples can yield an interesting scenario when it shows how a familiar concept has quite unexpected consequences.
21. Causal chaining allows @MetaphorMagnet to blend the norms of two concepts with differing affect profiles to achieve a surprising what-if whole. Consider Artists: (I used to be an artist!)
By chaining KB triples together, a machine can observe that artists typically cause a positive effect on the arts. Seeing that critics can have a negative effect on arts, and dictators have a negative effect on their critics …
… @MetaphorMagnet reasons that dictators can have the same positive effect on the arts as artists! This is sophistry as ‘critic’ is used in two differing senses, but in this what-if blend, Artists become like Dictators!
22. When two concepts cause the same effects (after a little sophistry), we can easily imagine a story in which one becomes the other, deliberately or unintentionally, with dramatic consequences.
I love
the smell of narrative in
the morning!
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24. We are currently evaluating the packaging of ideas in @MetaphorMagnet using Crowd-sourcing (against a non- creative baseline @MetaphorMinute).