{"340511":{"#nid":"340511","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Told by a robot: Fiction by storytelling computers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScheherazade, developed by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Riedl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and colleagues at Georgia Tech, can tell stories set in any world it can learn about via the internet. Using crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon\u0027s Mechanical Turk, the system requests sample actions that can happen in various scenarios, such as a bank robbery.\u0026nbsp;Scheherazade strings together many sequences of actions to get a sense of what actions are possible and the order in which they must appear.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-11-04 13:32:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Joshua Preston","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#.VFkM-VPF_9O","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":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"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":""}}}