A human author simply decides an interesting emotional path for the story, and the computer does the rest.
Margaret Sarlej, PhD candidate at University of New South Wales, to Phys.org. Computer writes its own fables.
We’ve written before about robots writing the news, now they’re writing fables.
Sarlej has written an application that takes 22 identified emotions used in fables, mixes and matches them with a plot, and pops out a written story.
Easier said than done.
Via The Guardian:
Breaking stories down for a computer “involves not only encoding story elements like characters, events, and plot, but also the ‘common sense’ people take for granted”, said Sarlej. Telling a story is simple enough for a child to do, but stories are actually “incredibly complex”.
“For example, if Bob gives Alice an apple, Alice will have the apple, and Bob will not. To a person, that’s obvious, and doesn’t require explanation. If Bob punches Carl, people would generally assume Carl will be unhappy about it, but a computer doesn’t have the ‘common sense’ to make such an inference. In a computer programme, details like this must be explicitly spelled out,” she said.
Current results are fairly rudimentary but, according to Scarlej’s supervisor, computers “will be making interesting and meaningful contributions to literature within the next decade.”
(via futurejournalismproject)
the future of story writing since Death Watch (1980), and earlier elsewhere I’m sure.
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