no code implementations • 31 May 2024 • Piotr Wojciech Mirowski, Juliette Love, Kory W. Mathewson, Shakir Mohamed
We interviewed twenty professional comedians who perform live shows in front of audiences and who use artificial intelligence in their artistic process as part of 3-hour workshops on ``AI x Comedy'' conducted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2023 and online.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2022 • Nathan J. Wispinski, Andrew Butcher, Kory W. Mathewson, Craig S. Chapman, Matthew M. Botvinick, Patrick M. Pilarski
Patch foraging is one of the most heavily studied behavioral optimization challenges in biology.
1 code implementation • 29 Sep 2022 • Piotr Mirowski, Kory W. Mathewson, Jaylen Pittman, Richard Evans
We illustrate Dramatron's usefulness as an interactive co-creative system with a user study of 15 theatre and film industry professionals.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2022 • Kory W. Mathewson, Patrick M. Pilarski
Two major open research questions in the field of IML are: "How should we design systems that can learn to make better decisions over time with human interaction?"
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2022 • Cultural General Intelligence Team, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Bethanie Brownfield, Adrian Collister, Agustin Dal Lago, Ashley Edwards, Richard Everett, Alexandre Frechette, Yanko Gitahy Oliveira, Edward Hughes, Kory W. Mathewson, Piermaria Mendolicchio, Julia Pawar, Miruna Pislar, Alex Platonov, Evan Senter, Sukhdeep Singh, Alexander Zacherl, Lei M. Zhang
We provide a method for generating zero-shot, high recall cultural transmission in artificially intelligent agents.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2021 • M. Mehdi Afsar, Eric Park, Étienne Paquette, Gauthier Gidel, Kory W. Mathewson, Eilif Muller
We propose an interactive art project to make those rendered invisible by the COVID-19 crisis and its concomitant solitude reappear through the welcome melody of laughter, and connections created and explored through advanced laughter synthesis approaches.
1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2021 • Dylan R. Ashley, Vincent Herrmann, Zachary Friggstad, Kory W. Mathewson, Jürgen Schmidhuber
We look at how machine learning techniques that derive properties of items in a collection of independent media can be used to automatically embed stories into such collections.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Boyd Branch, Piotr Mirowski, Kory W. Mathewson
We introduced novel constraints on our language model to produce longer narrative text and tested the model in rehearsals with a team of professional improvisers.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Nikhil Prakash, Kory W. Mathewson
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are getting ubiquitous within our society, issues related to its fairness, accountability, and transparency are increasing rapidly.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2019 • Lana Cuthbertson, Alex Kearney, Riley Dawson, Ashia Zawaduk, Eve Cuthbertson, Ann Gordon-Tighe, Kory W. Mathewson
In this paper, we present ParityBOT: a Twitter bot which counters abusive tweets aimed at women in politics by sending supportive tweets about influential female leaders and facts about women in public life.
no code implementations • 15 May 2019 • Kory W. Mathewson
The interactive machine learning (IML) community aims to augment humans' ability to learn and make decisions over time through the development of automated decision-making systems.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Kory W. Mathewson, Osmar Zaiane
Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2019 • Kory W. Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George Foster, Marc G. Bellemare
We consider the problem of designing an artificial agent capable of interacting with humans in collaborative dialogue to produce creative, engaging narratives.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Kory W. Mathewson, Osmar Zaiane
Our model is built upon the basic Seq2Seq model by augmenting it with a hierarchical joint attention mechanism that incorporates topical concepts and previous interactions into the response generation.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2018 • Markus Eger, Kory W. Mathewson
dAIrector is an automated director which collaborates with humans storytellers for live improvisational performances and writing assistance.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2018 • Kory W. Mathewson, Piotr Mirowski
In this work, we have employed it to control what a subset of human actors say during an improv performance.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2018 • Jaden B. Travnik, Kory W. Mathewson, Richard S. Sutton, Patrick M. Pilarski
The relationship between a reinforcement learning (RL) agent and an asynchronous environment is often ignored.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2017 • Patrick M. Pilarski, Richard S. Sutton, Kory W. Mathewson, Craig Sherstan, Adam S. R. Parker, Ann L. Edwards
This work presents an overarching perspective on the role that machine intelligence can play in enhancing human abilities, especially those that have been diminished due to injury or illness.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2017 • Kory W. Mathewson, Patrick M. Pilarski
In many human-machine interaction settings, there is a growing gap between the degrees-of-freedom of complex semi-autonomous systems and the number of human control channels.
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2017 • Kory W. Mathewson, Patrick M. Pilarski
We illustrate the impact of varying human feedback parameters on task performance by investigating the probability of giving feedback on each time step and the likelihood of given feedback being correct.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2016 • Kory W. Mathewson, Patrick M. Pilarski
This paper contributes a preliminary report on the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating simultaneous human control and feedback signals in the training of a reinforcement learning robotic agent.