It's one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching a computer to understand us so well that it can write a story we'll want to hear
WHAT if there was a monkey who was afraid of bananas? What if there was a man who woke up as a dog but could still use his phone? What if there was a house without a door? The What-If Machine has an active imagination.
Much like us: we love to make things up. We tell stories to entertain, to share experiences and to make sense of things. As the author Philip Pullman put it, "After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
Soon, though, we won't be the only ones doing it. Systems like the What-If ...
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