A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Robots will write stories that read as if they were written by a human.
Kris Hammond is chief scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science, a company with an artificial intelligence product called Quill that can turn data into stories that read as if they were written by a human.
Continue reading… “In the future artificial intelligence will write bestseller fiction”
The number of stories longer than 2,000 words published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, from 2003 to 2012.
Major U.S. newspapers have seen a sharp decline in the last ten years in the stories that are published that contain over 2,000 words. The Los Angeles Times has seen an 86% drop, The Washington Post down 50% and The Wall Street Journal down 35%.
Continue reading… “Longform meltdown at major newspapers in the U.S.”
Flying dogs and the stories they lived to tell about
Some of the most amazing stories in history have involved dogs. Here are some of those amazing stories.
1.) Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that’s right,two DOGS survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family boarded boatNo. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen. (Pics)
6 year old drives Mom’s car
Looking back at the weird stories of the year is always fun. Here are the twelve most memorable events that had us all doing double takes in 2009. (Pics)