Comedy Writing With Small Generative Models

Explore the intersection of comedy and artificial intelligence in this 43-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Delve into the world of generative text models and their applications in comedy projects. Follow Jamie Brew's journey from reverse-engineering a phone's predictive text to understanding complex language models like ngrams, LSTMs, and transformers. Discover how the properties of these models influence the quality and style of their output. Examine the relevance of small language models in an era dominated by larger ones, and gain insights from Brew's experience as a founder of Botnik Studios and former writer for The Onion and ClickHole. Learn about the technical aspects of text generation while exploring its creative potential in comedy writing.