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Creative Writing Machines, with Mike Sharples

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Uncanny Valley in Story Telling

The uncanny valley is a concept that most of us are familiar with when it comes to robots made in the likeness of a human being, or certainly when we get into computer generated imagery and films. But where i think there is an uncanny valley is if we then say, was this written by a machine? And if so, what kind of machine? Soi ita machine that was trained on billions of words from hertey the web, but has had no experience of the world. In that case, how can it be reporting on the world? How can it pretend to have a human like experience? I don't think need worry us, because stories do have an uncanniness to

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