🧚 Scientists created AI that writes fairy tales for children

Researchers from MIT, among others, have created a website with an AI that generates a fairytale with images and text, based on input from the user.

Creating fairytales and creative texts using AI is a challenge. According to the researchers behind the fairytale AI, the biggest challenge is that a fairytale needs to have an unexpected direction and a coherent feeling and tone. Several existing machine learning models have the ability to create fairytales, but all have their shortcomings, according to the researchers behind the new model.

In a study, the researchers combined strengths in different AI models for text generation. They also designed a model to retrieve images in existing databases based on the content of a text.

To train the model, texts from Reddit and existing children's books were used. The Reddit texts were cleared of negative messages and offensive words. A total of 300,000 texts were included in the training. The researchers fine-tuned the model several times based on the results' degree of creativity, positivity in the messages, diversity in sentences, readability, and how "fairytale-like" the texts were.

The researchers also created a model to calculate the difference between the
images that were selected for the saga to get the highest possible feeling of coherence.

The platform was available online for a while under the name "Fairytailor," and the user could choose between creating a fairytale through "autocomplete" or "high quality auto-complete." In the latter option, several different fairytales were created coupled with a ranking based on different parameters. All that was needed from the user was a small snippet of the text.

To evaluate the platform, people were asked to submit fairytales generated by the AI ​​and rate the works. The rating was based on three different parameters: how coherent it was, the degree of creativity, and the degree of clarity. The highest score was 5 points.

This is the average end result: Clarity: 3.4, creativity: 3.7, coherence: 3.5.

Read more here: https://github.com/EdenBD/MultiModalStory-demo