Once upon a time, there was a robot… BSIP/Getty
鈥淚t has been two weeks, and the last of my kind has gone.鈥 As opening lines to a story about alien abduction go, it isn鈥檛 bad. It is even more impressive when you realise the writer isn鈥檛 human, but a newly developed artificial intelligence.
Getting machines to create stories is hard. At a minimum, a good yarn must have a plausible sequence of events that lead you from the beginning to the end. Yet聽maintaining coherence over multiple sentences is something that existing text-generation systems struggle with.…
