{"375321":{"#nid":"375321","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Told by a robot: Fiction by storytelling computers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAre you sitting comfortably? The latest story-generation systems (see \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22429901.400-automatic-authors-making-machines-that-tell-tales.html\u0022\u003EAutomatic authors: Making machines that tell tales\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022) are learning to make things up by first figuring out how the human world works. Some canvas crowdsourcing platforms with questions about activities like first dates or bank jobs. Others mine online databases of concepts like\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/conceptnet5.media.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EConceptNet\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eto expand what they know about common objects and events before inverting them to invent fictions. Here are a few of the systems out there.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:27:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:49","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn26377-told-by-a-robot-fiction-by-storytelling-computers.html?full=true#.VD5pPUhwaWc","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"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":""}}}