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Paranoid Transformer: Reading Narrative of Madness as Computational Approach to Creativity

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  • Yana Agafonova

    (School of Arts and Humanities, Department of Philology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia)

  • Alexey Tikhonov

    (Yandex, 10117 Berlin, Germany)

  • Ivan P. Yamshchikov

    (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Max Planck Society, 04103 Leipzig, Germany)

Abstract

This paper revisits the receptive theory in the context of computational creativity. It presents a case study of a Paranoid Transformer—a fully autonomous text generation engine with raw output that could be read as the narrative of a mad digital persona without any additional human post-filtering. We describe technical details of the generative system, provide examples of output, and discuss the impact of receptive theory, chance discovery, and simulation of fringe mental state on the understanding of computational creativity.

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  • Yana Agafonova & Alexey Tikhonov & Ivan P. Yamshchikov, 2020. "Paranoid Transformer: Reading Narrative of Madness as Computational Approach to Creativity," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:12:y:2020:i:11:p:182-:d:435195
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