Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers

This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work?

In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book co...