375321 external_news 1423502860 1475893429 Are you sitting comfortably? The latest story-generation systems (see "Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales") 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 ConceptNet to expand what they know about common objects and events before inverting them to invent fictions. Here are a few of the systems out there.

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