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Exploring Narrative Intelligence in AI: Implications for the Evolution of Homo narrans

인공지능의 서사 지능 탐구 : 새로운 서사 생태계와 호모 나랜스의 진화

  • Hochang Kwon (Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts)
  • 권호창 (한국예술종합학교 영상이론과)
  • Received : 2023.12.22
  • Accepted : 2024.01.20
  • Published : 2024.02.25
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Abstract

Narratives are fundamental to human cognition and social culture, serving as the primary means by which individuals and societies construct meaning, share experiences, and convey cultural and moral values. The field of artificial intelligence, which seeks to mimic human thought and behavior, has long studied story generation and story understanding, and today's Large Language Models are demonstrating remarkable narrative capabilities based on advances in natural language processing. This situation raises a variety of changes and new issues, but a comprehensive discussion of them is hard to find. This paper aims to provide a holistic view of the current state and future changes by exploring the intersections and interactions of human and AI narrative intelligence. This paper begins with a review of multidisciplinary research on the intrinsic relationship between humans and narrative, represented by the term Homo narrans, and then provide a historical overview of how narrative has been studied in the field of AI. This paper then explore the possibilities and limitations of narrative intelligence as revealed by today's Large Language Models, and present three philosophical challenges for understanding the implications of AI with narrative intelligence.

내러티브는 인간의 인지와 사회 문화의 기본이며 개인과 사회가 의미를 구성하고 경험을 공유하며 문화적, 도덕적 가치를 전달하는 주요 수단으로 사용된다. 인간의 사고와 행동을 모방하려는 인공지능 분야에서는 오랫동안 스토리 생성과 스토리 이해에 관해서 연구해 왔으며, 오늘날 대규모 언어 모델은 발전된 자연어 처리 기술을 바탕으로 괄목할 만한 서사적 능력을 보여주고 있다. 이런 상황은 다양한 변화와 새로운 문제를 제기하지만 이에 대한 포괄적인 논의를 찾아보기는 어렵다. 본 논문은 인간과 AI의 서사 지능의 교차점과 상호작용을 살펴봄으로써 현재의 상태와 미래의 변화에 대한 전체적인 조망을 제공하는 것을 목표로 한다. 먼저 호모 나랜스라는 용어로 대변되는 인간과 내러티브의 본질적 관계에 관한 다학제적 연구를 살펴보고, 인공지능 분야에서 내러티브에 관한 연구가 어떻게 이루어져 왔는지를 역사적으로 살펴본다. 그리고 오늘날 대규모 언어 모델이 보여주는 서사 지능의 가능성과 한계를 살펴보고, 서사 지능을 갖춘 AI가 갖는 함의를 파악하기 위한 세 가지 철학적 과제를 제시한다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020S1A5B5A16083590)

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