Work and Newsletter Updates, Plus a Game and Talk

 I'm still in France consulting!  I have so far survived the epidemics and heat waves. 

But the news is still relatively small. I am still consulting part-time at Google Arts & Culture Lab, where I wrote and illustrated a cute narrative game, Where Is Hopper, using AI image generation.  In the game, you visit European cities looking for a lost penguin traveler. It was written in Ink.

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I spent about 8 months consulting at HiddenDoor, an AI-based game startup, working on tools for building a knowledge base and dictionary based on genres of text.   I've also done some smaller contracts on text generation, topic and entity tagging for a journalism client for their new web CMS, and data scraping.

In more arty fun, I delivered a fun invited workshop talk on text (and image generation) toys and projects I've worked on in the past few years.  The slides are here, Text Toys and Glitch Poetics and the video is here.

I've also been hanging out in Midjourney, a platform and community for text2image generation (I'm a volunteer moderator).

During the various confinements, I focused a lot on my newsletter and have really expanded it, especially as AI creativity tools and research have blown up. Once a month, free, it's now on Substack. If I were you, I might sub just for the book recs, but there are lots of game-related things now too.

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Also in the past couple years I wrote a search tool that updates online links on text generation research of interest to me in ArXiv; stuff like poetry, story, dialogue, etc.  It runs once a week or so.