{"346131":{"#nid":"346131","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Once upon a bot: can we teach computers to write fiction?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the past two years, Mark Riedl (Interactive Computing) and student researchers have worked on a program called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca class=\u0022 u-underline\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/research.cc.gatech.edu\/eilab\/open-story-generation\u0022 data-link-name=\u0022in body link\u0022 data-component=\u0022in-body-link\u0022\u003EScheherazade\u003C\/a\u003E, which learns how to describe tasks by analysing crowd-sourced human accounts, and then attempts to produce plausible short stories about, say, going to the movies or a restaurant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-11-14 16:23:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:23","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/nov\/11\/can-computers-write-fiction-artificial-intelligence","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}