Computational generation of dream-like narrative: Reflections on the uncanny dream machine.

摘要

The practice of expressive artificial intelligence (AI) involves the application of traditional AI practices to cultural production. The Uncanny Dream Machine is a work of expressive AI that employs these practices in order to examine and reflect on the phenomenon of nighttime dreaming. Drawing on computational linguistics and narrative techniques, The Uncanny Dream Machine uses a corpus of human dream transcripts to generate short, dream-like narratives that are uncannily similar to those found in the corpus. In so doing, it provides necessary practical grounding for deep theoretical questions about the interplay between dreams, narrative, creativity and embodiment in computation and everyday human experience.