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May 2022
20m 49s

Computational Creativity

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About this episode

Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results fair.

(Saronik messes up the word GPT-3 twice!)

Reading List:

GPT3 Creativity

When AI Falls in LoveGPT-3 Creative FictionAre You Ready for NaNoWriMo?

Papers/Posts on Computational Creativity

Generating Similes Like a ProContent Planning for Neural Story GenerationReverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation The Comedian is in the Machine

Music and Art

Google Magenta

Creating Image from Text

Dall-ECreative Text Generation

Bias in Language Models

Stereoset measures Racism, Sexism, and other Forms of Bias in AI Language ModelsTowards Controllable Biases in Language GenerationThe Woman worked as a BabysitterTimnit Gebru’s thread about Google firing herRealToxicityPromptsMeasuring and Reducing Gendered Correlations in Pre-trained Models

Bias in Poetry

Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System

AI Poetry

Google’s New AI Helps You Write Poetry like PoeGenerating Topical Poetry

Academic Venues

Computational CreativityMachine Learning for Creativity and Design

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