The Story Machine

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Over time, the whole Story Machine project could turn into something like Episode, which enables consumers to create their own comic-like, interactive stories. The Story Machine project has been underway for about a year, said Love. Story Machine helps you create games using generative AI. This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? Story Machine is committed to doing good. We strive to have a net positive social, environmental, and artistic impact. We are transitioning to Environmentally friendly energy and business practices, including how we print, distribute, and promote our books, and the way we source . A wry, humane, expansive and searching debut exploring home, yearning and loss through a cast of unforgettable characters.’

Books are with you always. At least they will be if you want them to be. They’re your best friend if you want them to be. Reading is pretty cool. I think it’s a sexy place to be. Reading is sexy. Reading is disco. I love it. With well developed characters and fast paced plot, Bradington Bay explores themes of sexuality, friendship and love, all within the expanse of a road trip.’ An amazing wonderful experience!! The sound of the wind – all so atmospheric! I Loved the hut!!’ Audience member, Norwich Story Machine, working with National Centre for Writing, Sally-Anne Lomas, and Dr Ruw Abeyratne today announce the launch of WORKING WELL: Writing and Movement for Wellbeing, a project designed to support the wellbeing and resilience of NHS staff at this time of unprecedented pressure. Story Machine is opening in private beta today and is ready to be deployed in professional environments. It is the newest member of Dai’s ecosystem of hardware and software companies, which includes MeetKai, an AI and Metaverse services company. Meetkai helps companies build metaverse applications.Writing and movement workshops were developed by Sally-Anne Lomas and Story Machine in 2021 around publication of Lomas’s debut novel, Live Like Your Head’s On Fire, in which Pen Flowers finds ways to cope with the pressures of adolescence through physical movement and dance. When Dr Ruw Abeyratne attended a Writing and Movement workshop in 2021 she immediately recognized the benefit that this work could have for her colleagues across the NHS. I attended an event with Deirdre Madden – she had edited a collection of Irish short stories called All Over Ireland and was reading bits of Colm Tóibín and Mary Morrissey. She wanted people to hear it so she could hone in on the bits she especially liked. There was a great line from the Morrissey story ‘Emergency’ where a fighter plane crashes and the parachute ‘faints’ behind the tree. Well that’s just gorgeous. That event had a flavour of close reading. It wasn’t intimidating or scary, people seemed to enjoy it. How can we ensure that the beauty in books, the thing that makes them memorable, is retained in an event? That’s a challenge I feel keenly.

While it’s not likely that generative AI can spit out awesome games anytime soon, helping game creators with tools that can help them generate better art is a big opportunity, said James Kaplan, CEO of Meetkai, one of Dai’s metaverse platform companies, in an interview with GamesBeat.But I think the breakthrough for me was with Roald Dahl. I can remember getting a book token as a present and buying George’s Marvellous Medicineand reading it in a velveteen beanbag in my grandparents’ house. I read it all in one sitting which was the first time I had ever done that. A lot of Roald Dahl’s books spoke to me. His language, these great escapades the characters get into. But it was probably Matildathat I most related to – I thought she was the bees knees and that I might be a bit like her. Why do I read? Because it’s such a pleasurable thing to do. That an inanimate object can interact with you so that you cry or laugh without anything changing in the real world. That you can read a thing and want to vomit. That Joey in Friends can want to put The Shiningin the freezer to be physically away from it. Software that writes stories? A fascinating insight into how computers are learning to replicate the power of human imagination. Sharples and Pérez y Pérez are experts in the field of computational creativity. Their insights into language, story structure and the replication of human creativity map a journey in which computers could create future stories that change behaviours and beliefs. The ethics of how these are enabled, engaged and deployed will be a debated for years to come." In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers. Providing examples of story machines through the ages, it covers the history, recent developments, and future implications of automated story generation.

I couldn’t put it down. It’s so beautifully written and incredibly sensitive. Such a powerful, important book, which I predict is going to be an instant hit.’ Magical, imaginative and emotional journey. Inspirational and evocative. A jigsaw of experiences and memories.’ Wigtown Book FestivalI worked for Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and am now Manager of Literary Dundee, which sits within the University of Dundee and involves running a year-round programme, a literary festival, a book prize, and a publication. I like to think I’m trying to get people excited about books by producing events that they’ll like, by leading book groups, by trying to remove barriers. If you’ve never been then a book festival is quite an intimidating prospect. So I try to do events in bizarre venues. Or put on free food so the event is leading with the idea of food and drink and then there’s an author in addition. We have a very small number of studios using the tool today. And what we’re going to announce at GDC is both that it’s ready for deployment in a number of different use cases, and that we’re opening it up for a general private beta,” Love said. “The timing was fortunate with the zeitgeist around AI. We were working on this for some time.” We want to be humble in our approach, but we believe this is disruptive,” Dai said. Different kinds of content Weili Dai is cofounder and executive chair of MeetKai and Story Machine. Alaric Mark Lewis has been a piano bar performer, bartender, waiter, film critic, teacher, wedding singer, pizza maker, Benedictine monk, and writer in the US, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Navigating a world of eccentric figures and fantastic storytellers, his path led him to become the priest of three city-centre Medieval churches in Norwich, where with his partner Maurizio and dachshund Linus he continues to surround himself both with great stories and eccentric figures. He has written four books on the spirituality of loss and illness.

I remember going on a school trip to York aged eight with a terrible haircut and a Secret Seven book in my bag – I think it was Seven Go to the Island. We were in this old school which had bunkbeds and I was there with my three best mates and we were having a grand old time. I remember the date was the 7 thMay because in the book it was the 7 thMay too, and I thought that was incredible. That fiction and reality could overlap like that. Even now at the age of 33 if I’m on a train and we’re on a train in the book, it somehow seems more special. And if I’m reading that a character bites her nails I’ll do that. Or if someone in a book gives somebody the stink-eye, I’ll be doing the stink-eye to myself. I guess it’s like mirroring in a conversation with someone, only with an inanimate object. If you’re a writer, should the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence worry you? Or is AI more likely to actually enhance your writing? This fascinating book charts the recent history of AI-driven ‘story machines’, probing their strengths and weaknesses, and what they can tell us about the creative writing process." Many companies are experimenting with AI,” said Kaplan. “But most are in the R&D stage. We’re excited to partner with Robot Invader to leverage the Story Machine platform that our customers can deploy today to bring generative 2D content to the metaverse.”Story Machine was founded in 2018. We create unforgettable experiences for readers and writers. We publish exciting new writing. We help artists develop their practice. And we create unforgettable live experiences. Our productions are like no book event you’ve seen before. In her thoughtful introduction to All Over Ireland, Madden urges us not to take for granted the act of reading and to remember that the ‘direct relationship between a reader and a writer – private, contemplative, born out of silence – is to be valued more and more as the cultural cacophony around us increases’. Beautiful, sensual, sexy and sad. The first novel in a while to make me weep. Bradington Bay is a journey you need to make’ Kev McCready