So, I don’t have notes because…chaos talk. And this is artbot.club which I’ve been working on. So yeah, that’s kind of like, Tracery is you have a grammar and you’re generating stuff. The best one that this particular grammar ever generated was “an angry nun in a wedding dress” who came into my little hipster simulated restaurant and ordered a glass of wine and left. But I got “a cheerful tourist covered in mud and a feminine lumberjack dressed entirely in lavender.” And then also kind of interesting ones like “dozens of gold-eyed supermodels” that cause you to create stories. So, here I’ve generated a number of things. I like that Tracery often surprises me with what it generates. And you can see that kind of generating a number of different people. And then things that people might have, like an overstuffed backpack or an accordion, or carrying a briefcase, carrying a boom box, etc. And you can see that I’ve got a whole bunch of different types of people. So this is a thing that generates patrons for a hipster restaurant simulator I’m making. So this is a grammar that I wrote that is basically-like, you can think about it as running Mad Libs for computers. Tracery is really great if you would like to generate some interesting text. I’ll talk a little bit about this later but I just kind of wanted to show y’all an example of Tracery for people who hadn’t experienced it yet. So I’ll be presenting on Tracery today, but also some ideas that I had about Tracery. As I went out on a walk today I had an idea for a talk, so I decided to throw out the talk that I also hadn’t written yet and write a new talk. Her mission is to design artificial intelligence to augment human creativity and to create tools that bring AI into the hands of poets, artists, kids, and weirdos. She wrote the first paper on procedural platform game levels, generated the planets for the video game Spore, created the language Tracery, which runs over ten thousand community-made bots on Twitter, and invented an early phone-based augmented reality system. Kate Compton, also known as GalaxyKate on social media like Twitter, is a long-time generative artist, inventor, programmer, and Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. Golan Levin: I am pleased to introduce our next presenter, Kate Compton.

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