Tell me a story, AI: how artificial intelligence may write our next favorite script. From the article:

In the experiments conducted by Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheherazade-IF read a couple hundred stories written by humans about either going to the movies or robbing a bank, and used them to create interactive stories of its own.

Interestingly, even when asked to write simple stories, the AI came up with unexpected results.

To test their AI’s writing skills, researchers compared Scheherazade-IF to a version of the system that produced random stories, and one that had a “perfect” script programmed by a single human storyteller. They then asked people to play the different versions and report how often the story didn’t make sense. In some cases, Scheherazade-IF performed just as well as the human-programmed version, and in other cases it did about 83 percent as well. Some scenarios were easier to learn than others but it always did much better than the randomly created stories.