Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories
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·September 5, 2025null
vunderba
Neat. Seems like it might also be a useful tool to be able to integrate into games that involve procedurally generated stories/quests like you might find in Dwarf Fortress.
deepsquirrelnet
That was where my mind went as well. I was thinking about about what it would take to create a text-based game (eg The Wizard’s Castle), but augmented with a language model. This seems like a useful piece of doing that.
mungoman2
This is extremely cool! Is this the first type of tools that are genuinely enabled by AI?
Can we distill the story into something to feed z3 to prove there are no plot holes?
prangel
Link to the html version of the paper https://arxiv.org/html/2410.07486v2
romaniv
Not a single reference to P. H. Winston's work on story understanding and the Genesis system. Yes, sorry, I do expect people claiming to operate in some field to have knowledge of that field and acknowledge prior wok. This is absolutely fundamental to having an actual institution of science, rather than a bunch of people tinkering with random projects.
ACCount37
Is this in any way relevant? Or are you just plugging your favorite project whether it fits or not?
mattlutze
Give the project an actual look.
It is a systematic approach to deconstructing and composing a story through standardized schemas, and sounds like it should or would inform something like the OP's visual representation system.
cluckindan
Do you consider the study of computer science and AI in relation to human telling and understanding of stories to be irrelevant to a tool that uses AI to understand human-written stories as well as to provide a computer GUI for editing those stories by re-synthesizing the GUI edits as text?
mallowdram
Stories, AI, words, statements, images- are all arbitrary. The AI bubble is the same as story bubble, it's the dilution of meaning. Automate dilution and you have hallucination. This is occurring across the board in politics, news.
gmuslera
It is not the same approach, but xkcd's Movie Narrative Chart (https://xkcd.com/657/) goes into a similar direction.
chrisweekly
That reminds me of this amazing interactive SPA that visualizes the dream-level depths of each character in the movie 'Inception'.
http://inception-explained.com
It was created shortly after the film's release, about 15 years ago, and requires a desktop viewport. Highly recommended!
Mallowram
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