MIT researchers have applied the electrodes and brought to life a new fiction-writing bot they call Shelley — after Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. The lab's experiment, launched in time for Halloween, follows a similar project to create scary images last year. 2/2 #yourturn — @shelley_aiKing, the world's most famous living horror writer, has said it can take him "months and even years " to get a novel's opening paragraph right. The researchers didn't train Shelley in the genre's classics, both for copyright reasons and because there just aren't enough of them. While readers might not be buying Shelley-produced books anytime soon, the system learns from the feedback it gets, and might help nudge a human writer into thinking more creatively.

Source: CBC News October 30, 2017 16:07 UTC