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COMPUTER-DRIVEN CREATIVITY STANDS AT THE FOREFRONT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON LITERARY COMPOSITION
Pablo Gervás
Pablo Gervás has been working for twenty years on the frontier of language and computation, attempting to model the way in which people use language to communicate with a view
to coming up with artificial solutions for similar purposes. His work includes the use of language technology to access information, universal accessibility and digital inclusion, the development of applications capable of turning data unto stories, automatic generation
of poems and narrative, and the modeling of creative processes in literature.
Gervás has a doctorate from Imperial College, London, having graduated in physics from the Complutense University of Madrid where he now lectures in IT. For the past eight years, he has also held the post of director of the Institute of Technological Awareness.
Recently, he took part in three projects on computational creativity, financed by the European Commission. As a result of his most recent research, his program Propperwryter was used to come up with the plotline for the musical Beyond the Fence – the first plotline to be generated by computer for this kid of production. Beyond the Fence premiered in London’s West End in February 2016. Poems generated by his WASP program have been presented at poetry festivals such as the Globe Road Poetry Festival in London in 2015 and the Festival of Poets in Madrid’s Matadero in 2017.
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