Every hour, on the hour, Shelley tweets out a new story, which consists of approximately two or three tweets followed by #yourturn, asking her Twitter followers to write a line of the story themselves, and then finishes it off with a chilling twist of her own. And the results are truly and sincerely terrifying. I don’t know about you but, noooooooooope! I’ll admit that I’m fairly adverse to horror stories in the first place, requiring a well-lit room, a thick blanket, and at least three friends to watch even the tamest of scary movies. However, the idea that these already bone-chilling tales are being penned by an artificially intelligent robot has to strike fear into even the most seasoned of horror film fans. Shelley is no amateur effort. Her MIT creators were also behind the Nightmare Machine, an AI-powered image generator that produced pictures that were designed to terrify whoever was looking at them through machine learning. Because the only thing scarier than mangled faces and spooky mansions is knowing that a robot can figure out which one scares you more. Read more about what artificial intelligence can do at TechCo
