AI & Storytelling

The Artificial Intelligence and Storytelling course at the University of Edinburgh invites students to explore how AI can be used as a creative tool for generating and telling stories with both image and text. The course is open to all backgrounds and combines hands-on experience, creative workshops, and expert lectures.

For more information and access to the online course materials, visit the AI & Storytelling course page and the media library with select lectures.

In an academic environment where concerns are raised about assessment integrity and teaching effectiveness in the face of GenAI use, this course serves as an exemplary model of how to design effective learning and assessment for the GenAI era. The course philosophy and design anticipated the challenges posed by tools like ChatGPT, demonstrating how thoughtful educational design can embrace AI as a learning tool rather than viewing it as a threat to academic standards.

Supporting Artist: Yana Knight

The AI & Storytelling course has been instrumental in supporting the innovative work of artist Yana Knight, who has been exploring human-AI co-creation through our course materials and tools. Her work demonstrates the powerful intersection of literature, art, and artificial intelligence.

Featured Projects

🎬 Working with AIST Library

Watch Yana demonstrate how she works with our AI & Storytelling library tools in this video showcase.

🏛️ London Through the Eyes of AI

This experimental artwork blends literature, art and AI. Phrases from the original texts (Blake's poem "London", Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist" and Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway") are used as text prompts and Yana's cartoons are used as image input, to generate AI-augmented images.

We see London emerging from each author with a different, distinct emotional flavour, notice it change through words and time, the AI and texts working together to tease out its spirit as the city transforms and evolves...

On show at the University of Tartu Art museum as part of the Transforming Literary Places exhibition until 18 May 2024.

View the project →

🦌 What About Moose

Showing "What about moose" (with some extra moose sightings) at ISEA 2024 in Brisbane, Australia. Yana was part of the Ethos exhibition at the SAE institute venue, combining our AI tools with traditional printing press techniques.

View the project → | Yana's ISEA 2024 page →

📰 University of Edinburgh Coverage

Read the University of Edinburgh article about our collaboration and the ISEA 2024 exhibition.

💬 Yana's Perspective

"The AIST tools have allowed me to easily experiment and add AI into my analogue comic-making practice and are helping me develop a combined human-AI comic-making approach. They allow me to switch between analogue and AI-generated drawings, using my own drawings as a source for AI-generated images, giving me the possibility to maintain and work around my own style and visual elements of the image (composition, shapes, colours, lines etc.)"

— Yana Knight

🎨 Yana's Artwork Gallery