A New AI is Writing Perverse Horror Fiction

Developers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been dabbling in the arts for a while now. There's already an AI capable of composing original music -- it even has its own album -- writing film screenplays, and even painting. Now, as an early Halloween treat, the latest AI artist is aspiring to be a horror novelist. Meet Shelley AI, a deep learning algorithm that was developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and named after Victorian-era novelist Mary Shelley who penned Frankenstein. The AI was trained using stories collected from a subreddit dedicated to sharing original eerie tales.