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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Are you sitting comfortably? The latest story-generation systems (see "Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales") are learning to make things up by first figuring out how the human world works. Some canvas crowdsourcing platforms with questions about activities like first dates or bank jobs. Others mine online databases of concepts like ConceptNet to expand what they know about common objects and events before inverting them to invent fictions. Here are a few of the systems out there.
