We're oddly in sync. I read Revelator a few books ago (after it was itching to be read for years and somehow never got its turn.) Excellent. I'm also excited about Gregory's upcoming novel When We Were Real, teased on his website. It's about a group of people taking a road trip in a world that's known to be a simulation.
Huh, super interesting -- I can't wait for that new Gregory book then! Right up my alley :) I didn't know about that 5 books article, fab link -- it was purely a coincidence that I read Gnomon and then Rakesfall, and I was certainly struck by the similarities (see my Recs detail post). I better read the others he recs, they are on my list but hadn't gotten there yet. Moving them up!
Hi Lynn, just found this post. I am Santiago, one of the authors of PAYADOR. Thank you for including our work here! Trying to add some context if someone is reading, what we tried to show in the paper is that LLMs are really bad at modelling fictional worlds, but they can be useful when using a structured representation of the world and asking them to detect the changes in the world after an input. That is a difference with classic Interactive Fiction, where the system has preprogrammed every possible action. Here, what we preprogram, are the possible transformations the world could have.
Feel free to write me (sgongora [youknowwhat] fing.edu.uy) if you want to chat more about this! And thank you again for including us! :)
We're oddly in sync. I read Revelator a few books ago (after it was itching to be read for years and somehow never got its turn.) Excellent. I'm also excited about Gregory's upcoming novel When We Were Real, teased on his website. It's about a group of people taking a road trip in a world that's known to be a simulation.
https://darylgregory.com/
And my last read was Harkaway's Titanium Noir (which was just OK.)
I wonder why you've paired Rakesfall and Gnomon. Is it because of Chandrasekera's Five Books article?
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-best-science-fantasy-vajra-chandrasekera/
er, to clarify, Nona and Piranesi are already favs, it's the 2 I haven't read that i'm moving up :)
Huh, super interesting -- I can't wait for that new Gregory book then! Right up my alley :) I didn't know about that 5 books article, fab link -- it was purely a coincidence that I read Gnomon and then Rakesfall, and I was certainly struck by the similarities (see my Recs detail post). I better read the others he recs, they are on my list but hadn't gotten there yet. Moving them up!
FYI, Gen3 from RunwayML is out of closed testing and available to try, but I think only text (not image) init.
Hi Lynn, just found this post. I am Santiago, one of the authors of PAYADOR. Thank you for including our work here! Trying to add some context if someone is reading, what we tried to show in the paper is that LLMs are really bad at modelling fictional worlds, but they can be useful when using a structured representation of the world and asking them to detect the changes in the world after an input. That is a difference with classic Interactive Fiction, where the system has preprogrammed every possible action. Here, what we preprogram, are the possible transformations the world could have.
Feel free to write me (sgongora [youknowwhat] fing.edu.uy) if you want to chat more about this! And thank you again for including us! :)
Greetings from Uruguay,
Santi