Stephen Ware
@sgware.bsky.social
I run the Narrative Intelligence Lab at U Kentucky where I do research and teach about storytelling AI and game dev. http://cs.uky.edu/~sgware
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Stephen Ware
@sgware.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Bluesky is taking off, so I guess I should do something other than shitpost on occasion.
Hi new followers! I do research on AI for interactive stories that need to rewrite themselves as you play. We use them for games and training simulations.
Hi new followers! I do research on AI for interactive stories that need to rewrite themselves as you play. We use them for games and training simulations.
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Is detecting and pruning duplicate states in a narrative planning context worth it? Stephen Ware says yes! An interesting problem given the cyclical concept of "belief" that characters within the planning domain have. I liked the evaluation using the existing Sabre benchmarks here!
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Is detecting and pruning duplicate states in a narrative planning context worth it? Stephen Ware says yes! An interesting problem given the cyclical concept of "belief" that characters within the planning domain have. I liked the evaluation using the existing Sabre benchmarks here!
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Phenomenal showing by the Narrative Intelligence Lab at #AIIDE25! @sgware.bsky.social, Molly Siler, Gage Birchmeier, and Lasantha Senanayake presented a bevy of interesting research talks on interactive narrative. It's particularly exciting to see where the DC scholars are headed!
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Phenomenal showing by the Narrative Intelligence Lab at #AIIDE25! @sgware.bsky.social, Molly Siler, Gage Birchmeier, and Lasantha Senanayake presented a bevy of interesting research talks on interactive narrative. It's particularly exciting to see where the DC scholars are headed!
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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why do we allow private equity in our society? it's obviously bad for everyone in the world except the people doing it. it should be illegal like fraud
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
why do we allow private equity in our society? it's obviously bad for everyone in the world except the people doing it. it should be illegal like fraud
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I'm looking forward to checking out MicroTales from Molly Siler, @sgware.bsky.social, Gage Birchmeier, Mira Fisher and Lasantha Senanayake from this years #INT workshop. It looks like a neat event-level narrative planner with a simulation environment complete with support for custom extensions!
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm looking forward to checking out MicroTales from Molly Siler, @sgware.bsky.social, Gage Birchmeier, Mira Fisher and Lasantha Senanayake from this years #INT workshop. It looks like a neat event-level narrative planner with a simulation environment complete with support for custom extensions!
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Next we have Stephen Ware's @sgware.bsky.social talk on MicroTales, a benchmark for narrative "chess puzzles" with a number of desirable traits! This seems like a really useful planning domain.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Next we have Stephen Ware's @sgware.bsky.social talk on MicroTales, a benchmark for narrative "chess puzzles" with a number of desirable traits! This seems like a really useful planning domain.
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started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)
@microsoft.com, these are rookie numbers. I could lose way more than this. Call me.
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@microsoft.com, these are rookie numbers. I could lose way more than this. Call me.
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every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"
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This is what they took from you
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is what they took from you
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maize maze was right there
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
maize maze was right there
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it's so crazy we don't have a coke freestyle type of machine but for chip flavors. in some ways we're still basically living in the stone age
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
it's so crazy we don't have a coke freestyle type of machine but for chip flavors. in some ways we're still basically living in the stone age
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
Really enjoyed my first time at @roguelike.club!
If anyone is interest in my talk, "Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History" it's here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrP...
If anyone is interest in my talk, "Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History" it's here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrP...
Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History
YouTube video by Narrative Intelligence Lab
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Really enjoyed my first time at @roguelike.club!
If anyone is interest in my talk, "Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History" it's here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrP...
If anyone is interest in my talk, "Planning and Replanning Structured Adaptive Stories: 25 Years of History" it's here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrP...
Before you embark on a quest for revenge, dig two graves, because that asshole probably has at least one henchmen you're gonna have to kill along the way to getting your revenge.
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Before you embark on a quest for revenge, dig two graves, because that asshole probably has at least one henchmen you're gonna have to kill along the way to getting your revenge.
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This is all a question of the pleasure of responsiveness, and for me the best model of this is in @stcymsn.bsky.social’s dissertation. It’s been incredibly influential to my thinking on narrative satisfaction.
Responsiveness in Narrative Systems
Author(s): Mason, Stacey | Advisor(s): Mateas, Michael | Abstract: While game studies and interactive narrative communities have developed a rich body ofresearch around agency in our interactions with...
escholarship.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is all a question of the pleasure of responsiveness, and for me the best model of this is in @stcymsn.bsky.social’s dissertation. It’s been incredibly influential to my thinking on narrative satisfaction.
Fellas, is it gay to breathe oxygen?
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Fellas, is it gay to breathe oxygen?
"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
This heist at the Louvre is like boat stuck in canal, except in 10 years we'll get a kick ass movie about it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This heist at the Louvre is like boat stuck in canal, except in 10 years we'll get a kick ass movie about it.
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One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.
#NoKings #Manhattan
#NoKings #Manhattan
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.
#NoKings #Manhattan
#NoKings #Manhattan
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the old ways must croak
October 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the old ways must croak
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But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."
October 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What does it say about the capitalist class that they're excited to finally get to own people again?
The Hollywood community was quick to condemn the AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood and its creators, with SAG-AFTRA saying, "creativity is, and should remain, human-centered." bit.ly/4pTxa4E
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What does it say about the capitalist class that they're excited to finally get to own people again?