This AI nightmare bot spits out a new horror story every hour

Deep inside an MIT laboratory, an artificially intelligent bot is composing ghastly tales of nightmarish creatures and strange shrieks in the night. 

MIT researchers named their bot Shelley (after Frankenstein author Mary Shelley). They endowed her with an artificial mind, called a neural network, an advanced form of machine learning in which a computer learns a task by relying on training examples. In Shelley’s case, MIT researchers fed her silicon brain 140,000 horror stories published by writers on Reddit’s “No Sleep” forum.

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