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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
7. 1. There are five houses.
2. Frank Underwood lives in the Red house.
3. Dr. Evil owns the frickin’ Octopus.
4. Whiskey is the preferred drink in the Black house.
5. Donald Trump drinks Bourbon.
6. The Black house is just to the right of the White house.
7. The Black Lung smoker owns the Tortoise.
8. French Soot is smoked in the Brown house.
9. Tequila is the preferred drink in the middle house.
10.Bane lives in the first house.
11.The villain who smokes Coal Dust lives in the house next
to the villain with the Armadillo.
12.French Soot is smoked in a house next to the house
where the Shark is kept.
13.The Slow Death smoker drinks Vodka.
14.Kim Jong-un smokes Hacking Cough.
15.Bane lives next to the Blue house.
12. Now for
the relations
between classes
:drinks rdf:type owl:FunctionalProperty ,
owl:InverseFunctionalProperty ,
owl:ObjectProperty ;
rdfs:domain :Person;
rdfs:range :Drink .
:hasColor rdf:type owl:FunctionalProperty ,
owl:InverseFunctionalProperty ,
owl:ObjectProperty ;
rdfs:domain :House ;
rdfs:range :Color .
Use commas for
multiple values
for a property
But what’s an
inverse
functional
property?
17. :House rdf:type owl:Class ;
rdfs:subClassOf
[ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
owl:onProperty :isNextTo ;
owl:onClass :House ;
owl:maxQualifiedCardinality
"2"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ] ,
[ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
owl:onProperty :hasColor ;
owl:someValuesFrom :Color ] .
Qualified
cardinality!
Eureka!
A house has
at most two
neighboring
houses
and at least
(but only)
one colour!