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Machines now know how to terrorise humans

Shelley is the first artificial intelligence that writes horror stories. The project aims to explore how humans and machines can collaborate, the obstacles of that relationship and above all to confirm whether artificial intelligence is capable of provoking primary emotions in humans. We talk about this with Manuel Cebrián, an MIT Media Lab scientist, who talks to us about deep learning and explains the process by which they taught Shelley to write horror stories.

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