A look at how Human and AI-powered creativity can be combined to build better storytelling TOA 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h6BnTnUsTk

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770
Human and AI Powered Creativity in Storytelling
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden

2. The future of storytelling
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salvatore_Postiglione_Motiv_aus_dem_Decamerone.jpg

3. Storytelling timeline
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/302001867/

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcgee/234278571
Oral storytelling

5. https://www.flickr.com/photos/140034174@N05/26077478920
Immersive, engaging, participatory & adaptive

6. Object based media
http://thenextweb.com/media/2016/03/09/bbc-r-and-d-object-based-media/

7. Media + Metadata = Objects
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770
The idea behind ‘object-based’ media is that you take all the
assets for a given TV or radio show – the video clips, the
accompanying audio, any music soundtrack, and extras like
subtitles and sign language translations
wrap it up in useful metadata and then use software to ‘remix’
it as needed

8. The objects make the story

9. Storytelling has variables

10. Context, location, environment...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/haaijk/14196995087

11. Narrative on Rails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ag2r/4437697015

12. Media with more potential
Wired magazine Top trends for 2013

13. Perceptive Media “Breaking Out”
http://www.futurebroadcasts.com

14. Responsive Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/responsive-radio

15. Forecaster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-11-forecaster-our-experimental-object-based-weather-forecast

16. Perceptive drama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/visual-perceptive-media

17. How does it work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKu-b4Afh4

18. Scalable experiences (50000+)

19. Variations not versions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ Interstellar – © 2014 – Paramount Pictures

20. Variations not versions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ Interstellar – © 2014 – Paramount Pictures

21. 8 Variations
VideoContext timeline - https://github.com/bbc/VideoContext

22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_lee/2394548742
It’s the small things

23. Variations matter in storytelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNvpubJir8

24. Hollywood has been doing this for decades
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673// Inside Out – © 2015 - Disney

25. Memorable narratives experiences
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/ Vanilla Sky – © 2001 – Paramount Pictures

26. Highly relevant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ Se7en – © 1995 - New Line Cinema

27. Relevance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leweb3/6471629995
It will be very hard for people to
watch or consume something
that has not in some sense been
tailored for them
- Eric Schmidt, Google

28. Masterful storytelling
https://www.toastmasters.org/Magazine/Issues/July-2014

29. Machine intelligence?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/10/artificial-intelligence-screenplay-sunspring-silicon-valley-thomas-middleditch-ai

30. Garbage in : Garbage out
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10213764@N02/8037389194/

31. Algorithms free of bias?
http://www.wnyc.org/story/deep-problem-deep-learning/ | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/ai-programs-exhibit-racist-and-sexist-biases-research-reveals

32. Data ethics research
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/5137440872
Privacy
Security
Ownership
Identity
Data management
Accountability

33. Data ethics research
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noodlepie/7256071790
Trust is the foundation of the BBC:
we are independent, impartial and honest

34. Transparency in algorithms?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/enidmartindale/7749342258

35. X-Ray mode?

36. Machine learning, trust and public service
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-trust-and-public-service-tickets-36038927402

37. Creativity and art?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppemilo/15414290956 - Scott Adams quote
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep”

38. Generative adversarial network
https://futurism.com/ai-now-produce-better-art-humans-heres-how/ | https://www.flickr.com/photos/pralineb/23844215314/

39. Deep blue vs Kasparov - 1997!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/videomagusfx/14761557336

40. Don’t fear intelligent machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8xt8o4_5Q

41. Transcendent moments
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jlarnos/8297692520/

42. AlphaGo & Lee Sedol Redefined the Future
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-redefined-future/
“...although machines are now capable of moments of
genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their
own transcendent moments.
And it seems that in the years to come, as we humans work
with these machines, our genius will only grow in tandem
with our creations.”

43. Synergy of storytelling
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adelinapeltea/9026208637/

44. Some media reaction
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3350076/BBC-experimenting-smart-shows-adapt-personality-male-female.html

45. No more shared experiences?

46. This shared experience?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/16/tv-viewing-christmas-netflix-on-demand

47. A different shared experience
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627

48. The Internet of things

49. Perceptive Radio

50. Hyper reality experiences
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/ - The Game (1997)

51. Devices working together with media
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/4294160420

52. Even better storytelling for all

53. Media which bends to your context

54. New types of learning experiences

55. Build experiences like these
https://github.com/bbc/VideoContext

56. Making storytelling human again with Ai

57. Thank you for listening… questions?
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D FXT
@cubicgarden - ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk