The day they come up with a computer program to generate stories... oh, wait, they already have (sports stories, that is).

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The rest of you can join me in a prayer session out back to beseech The Powers That Be to keep programmers from inventing a movie story-generating machine!

A hundred years ago, a Philosophy / Artificial Intelligence professor of mine at RPI, Selmer Bringsjord, was working on this very thing...

They created a system he and a colleague were calling "Brutus", as they were first focusing on stories of betrayal. I check up on him every once in a while, but I don't think much has been done in the last ten years. And I don't think anything earth-shattering ever came of it.

But I'll try to comfort you by adding that, long philosophical discussions aside regarding my worldview and how I think "free will" is indeed an illusion and that the Universe is deterministic, I have strong reasons to believe we screenwriters have nothing to worry about... At least not any time soon!

Anyway, Bringsjord's info is at:

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/homeless/research/brutus.html

http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/

Resistance is futile...eventually we'll all be downloading stories written by Intel on our iPads :)

@RonC: Interesting. When I have time, I'll do more digging into those links. Thx.

Funny how the guy's name is Cutting.

Uh, I was told there would be no math...

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