I'm at the AIIDE Conference learning about using AI used in interactive digital entertainment and doing Kent Bye VoicesOfAI podcast interviews

.Xo; is modeling neural receptors & synapses in AI characters. Uses NLG to generate thoughts from musical lyric stimuli AIIDE Conference

.Ian Horswill used Hierarchical Transition Networks to model 5 TV tropes & create improv party game prompts for collaborative storytelling

.Ian Horswill lists out some related AI story games that inspired his game jam game Dear Leader's Happy Story Time AIIDE Conference

"Learning and Transfer of Modulated Locomotor Controllers," Heess et al., DeepMind: arxiv.org/abs/1610.05182 youtube.com/watch?v=sboPYv…

One of the more interesting chatbots that I've seen from the AI artist who made SUNSPRING. Uses the Socratic method into dig deep issues x.com/rossgoodwin/st…

Kent Bye VoicesOfAI disagree with Socratic method characterization — there's no dialogue for critical reasoning. Feels loosely like free association

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of [truckers] cried out in terror + were suddenly silenced" x.com/alexnnd/status…

.HTC VIVE's VIVEPORT aims to be the Netflix of VR offering subscriptions to non-gaming, educational, entertainment #VR experiences #CES2017

.@Nvidia announced "Spot": conversational AI interface w Google Assistant integration to "turn your home into an AI"

VR tech crossover with AI. NVIDIA's AI autopilot for self-driving cars tracks head position, your eye gaze, & even read your lips #CES2017

An anonymous AlphaGo disguised as "Master" wins 60 straight matches of Go online including against the world champ wsj.com/articles/ai-pr…

The @VoicesofAI Podcast is LIVE! Check out the first episode with AAAI President Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) talking about the landscape of #AI: voicesofai.com/1-the-landscap…

A fun conversation I had with Kent Bye (Voices of VR) on the side lines of #IJCAI2016 about the landscape of #AI is up now on his Kent Bye VoicesOfAI podcast. The conversation was from July 2016. One-and-half-years is an eternity in #AI these days. So, #ThrowbackThursday :-) x.com/kentbye/status…

Here are the open questions about artificial intelligence that I'll be exploring on the Kent Bye VoicesOfAI podcast. voicesofai.com

Thanks! Yeah, the maps of reality I covered in @ITCHouston keynote help me to categorize experiences & data from different domains & draw connections between them. @VoicesofAI eps #2, #4, #5 will give you a taste for how AI will be shaping the future of interactive storytelling. x.com/WeberKent/stat…

Into AI? Great news: in-depth interview podcast called Kent Bye VoicesOfAI has just been launched by Kent Bye (Voices of VR), one of the 3 most influential people in Virtual Reality. Kent's done over 600 great interviews with VR leaders - now he's moving into AI! My write-up: marshallk.com/interested-in-…

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I'm still navigating the seminal AI papers/books & history. There's popular literature but then there's academic literature. Reply w tips. I'll be covering parts of AI history in interviews I've done. I'm not sure who the prominent social scientists are. Hope to eventually answer x.com/theextendedmin…