The lecture schedule will be updated as the term progresses.
| Date | Topic | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, Jan 18, 2024 | Text Adventure Games |
Mark Riedl,
An Introduction to AI Story Generation
Optional: Jason Scott, GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary |
| Tue, Jan 23, 2024 | Conversation with Game Designer Jared Sorensen |
Jared Sorensen,
Action Castle
Optional: Jared Sorensen, Memento Mori games |
| Thu, Jan 25, 2024 | An Overview of Text Games and World Modeling by Peter Jansen |
Peter A. Jansen,
A Systematic Survey of Text Worlds as Embodied Natural Language Environments
Marc-Alexandre Côté, Ákos Kádár, Xingdi Yuan, Ben Kybartas, Tavian Barnes, Emery Fine, James Moore, Matthew Hausknecht, Ruo Yu Tao, Layla El Asri, Mahmoud Adada, Wendy Tay, and Adam Trischler, TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-based Games Matthew Hausknecht, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan, Interactive Fiction Games: A Colossal Adventure |
| Thu, Feb 1, 2024 | State of the art in Large Language Models | |
| Tue, Feb 6, 2024 | LLM Function Calling and Kani by Andrew Zhu |
Andrew Zhu, Liam Dugan, Alyssa Hwang, Chris Callison-Burch,
Kani: A Lightweight and Highly Hackable Framework for Building Language Model Applications
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| Thu, Feb 8, 2024 | Embeddings and RAG by Samar Haider | |
| Tue, Feb 13, 2024 | Search in AI | |
| Thu, Feb 15, 2024 | Classical Planning in Artificial Intelligence with PDDL | |
| Tue, Feb 20, 2024 | LLMs versus Text Adventure Games by Harry Li Zhang |
Li Zhang, Peter Jansen, Tianyi Zhang, Peter Clark, Chris Callison-Burch, Niket Tandon,
PDDLEGO: Iterative Planning in Textual Environments
Tianyi Zhang, Li Zhang, Zhaoyi Hou, Ziyu Wang, Yuling Gu, Peter Clark, Chris Callison-Burch, Niket Tandon, PROC2PDDL: Open-Domain Planning Representations from Texts |
| Thu, Feb 22, 2024 | Conversation with game designer Brianna McHorse of HiddenDoor |
Hidden Door
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| Tue, Feb 27, 2024 | Conversation with Jason Weston of Meta AI |
Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston,
Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game
Angela Fan, Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia, Emily Dinan, Emma Qian, Siddharth Karamcheti, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Douwe Kiela, Tim Rocktaschel, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Generating Interactive Worlds with Text Shrimai Prabhumoye, Margaret Li, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, Arthur Szlam, I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world: Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li, Arthur Szlam, Tim Rocktäschel, Jason Weston, How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds |
| Thu, Feb 29, 2024 | Conversation with game designer Leo Hunt |
Leo Hunt,
Vaults of Vaarn SRD (System Reference Document)
Leo Hunt, Vaults of Vaarn - Zine 1 Leo Hunt, Vaults of Vaarn - Zine 2 Leo Hunt, Vaults of Vaarn - Zine 3 |
| Sun, Mar 17, 2024 | Continual Learning with Language Agents by Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder |
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, Niket Tandon, Li Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark,
CLIN: A Continually Learning Language Agent for Rapid Task Adaptation and Generalization
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| Tue, Mar 19, 2024 | OpenAI video demo by Juston Fotre | |
| Thu, Mar 21, 2024 | Multimodal Models with Language and Vision by Artemis Panagopoulou | |
| Tue, Mar 26, 2024 | Project Pitches | |
| Thu, Mar 28, 2024 | Project Pitches - part 2 | |
| Thu, Mar 28, 2024 | Paper Presentation - WordCraft |
Ann Yuan, Andy Coenen, Emily Reif, Daphne Ippolito,
Wordcraft: Story Writing With Large Language Models
Robin Sloan, Diana Hamilton, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Ken Liu, Allison Parrish, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas, Wole Talabi, Ernest Hebert, Michelle Taransky, Joseph Mosconi, Jamie Brew, Aaron Winslow, Wordcraft Writers Workshop |
| Wed, Apr 3, 2024 | Using Interactive Fiction to Teach by Lilach Mollick |