Don’t throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre might want to keep an eye out behind him, because scientists have just unleashed a nightmare machine on a mission to churn out its own bone-chilling tales.<\/p>\n
MIT researchers have applied the electrodes and brought to life a new fiction-writing bot they call Shelley\u2014after “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley. To keep the bot busy\u2014no wandering the countryside terrorizing villagers!\u2014the team gave it a crash course in the horror genre, forcing it to read 140,000 stories published by amateur writers on a popular online forum.<\/p>\n
Now Shelley’s artificial neural network is generating its own stories, posting opening lines on Twitter, then taking turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.<\/p>\n
<\/ins> <\/p>\n “<\/span>She\u2019s creating really interesting and weird stories that have never really existed in the horror genre.”<\/span> <\/blockquote> \tFind Out More<\/a> <\/p>\n I then looked out my window to the side of my house and I could see the figure of a man standing in the woods. I froze and then I ran after him. I ran and ran and ran and ran, and then I realized he was …<\/p>\n I then looked out my window to the side of my house and I could see the figure of a man standing in the woods. I froze and then I ran after him. I ran and ran and ran and ran, and then I realized he was not a man at all. But something far worse. It stopped to look back at me and the breath caught in my throat. It was a tall black humanoid figure with no facial features and I didn’t know why it was staring. I realised too late it was probing me, trying to find a way into my mind. An awful alien voice filled my head and I couldn\u2019t run from it anymore. It felt like forever, and I felt something tickle me, a burning that I knew would never stop. I understood now its sole purpose: not just killing me but erasing all memory of my existence. I was unable to move and I stared at this thing for a moment and then I felt its skin was cold and pale and then it felt like a shifting body in my lungs was trying to stay in my soul. He was slowly taking over my body. I could feel his alien presence inside me. He chose me to be his host; his human companion while he is going to take over the world. The sound of my last breath burned to a crack in his body. I could feel it rise above my body. I was terrified of what was coming. I looked up at my \u201cbody\u201d and saw myself floating In my last conscious thought, I felt sorry for the world, for it will be over soon, and felt proud of the alien race I belonged to.<\/p>\n \tProject Overview<\/a> <\/ins> Tweets by shelley_ai<\/a> Don’t throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[189,2807],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-machine","tag-nightmare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4G1jb9.jpg?fit=500%2C325&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3orZX-f0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sample Initial Story by Shelley<\/h3>\n
Sample Result after 14 Tweets with 5 Participants<\/h3>\n
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