Summary of What Killed the Cat? Towards a Logical Formalization Of Curiosity (and Suspense, and Surprise) in Narratives, by Florence Dupin De Saint-cyr (irit-adria) et al.
What killed the cat? Towards a logical formalization of curiosity (and suspense, and surprise) in narratives
by Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Benjamin Callac, Eric Maisel
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a unified framework that formalizes the three core emotions driving narrative tension: curiosity, suspense, and surprise. The framework relies on non-monotonic reasoning to represent default world behavior and simulate an agent’s affective response to a story. The authors define and explore the properties of awareness, curiosity, surprise, and suspense, as well as the computational complexity of detecting these emotions. Finally, they propose methods for evaluating the intensity of these emotions in an agent listening to a story. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a special tool that helps us understand how stories make us feel excited or curious. It’s like a formula that shows what makes a good story great! The authors took the three main feelings we get from reading or watching a story (curiosity, suspense, and surprise) and made them math problems. They used these math problems to figure out how our emotions change as we read a story. Then, they came up with ways to measure how strong those feelings are. |
