Hello, I’m Kory 👋

2025 - Technical Director for "ANCESTRA", which premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. Published a Google Keyword blog post, "ANCESTRA": Behind the scenes of our experimental film and accompanying behind-the-scenes video on the making of. Launched Flow: an AI filmmaking tool built with and for creatives.

2024 - Launched Google Veo for video generation + VideoFX consumer tool + led collaboration with professional filmmakers effort (including collaboration on filmmaking with Donald Glover and his creative studio, Gilga). Published on measuring divergent creativity in humans and LLMs and an evaluation of LLMs' humour alignment with comedians.

2023 - Launched Dramatron for professionals co-writing screenplays and scripts with language models (code, paper, patent) and published on cultural general intelligence and communicative capital.

2022 - Published a guide to designing and evaluating human-centred interactive machine learning, research in emergent communication in populations and at scale, and BIG-bench for evaluating the capabilities of language models.

2021 - Launched StoryCentaur for using large language models as creative writing tools (code, paper), published research on collaborative storytelling with humans and AIs, tele-immersive improvisational performance, generating diverse and realistic laughter for interactive art, and symbolic behaviour in artificial intelligence.

2020 - Published research on shaping narrative arcs via information-theory and collaborative dialogue, on imitating interactive intelligence, and on using AI to perform improv in any language.

2019 - Published Ph.D. thesis Humour-in-the-loop: Improvised Theatre with Interactive Machine Learning Systems and launched TalkGenerator.com for automatically generating engaging presentation slide decks.

2018 - Launched Improbotics, a theatre lab pioneering performance alongside generative AI.

2017 - Launched HumanMachine and A.L.Ex. the Artificial Language Experiment**, published improvised theatre alongside artificial intelligences and improvised comedy as a Turing test.

2016 - Built and performed with an Artificial Improvisor – a chatbot and projected puppet to perform alongside.