The story of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon and his long battle against extradition to the US is to be turned into a feature film. It will tell the story of how a young man hunting for evidence of UFOs found his way into the Pentagon's system and carried out what US authorities described as "the biggest military computer hack of all time" and then faced the possibility of a long sentence in a US high-security prison. The film, The People v Gary McKinnon, will be directed by Paul McGuigan, who made Gangster Number 1 and Lucky Number Slevin. The screenplay is by Peter Harness, who has written scripts for Wallander, Doctor Who, McMafia and Sherlock as well as the film Is Anybody There? It will be produced by Wall to Wall Media and Warner Brothers.

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Dr Lara Martin wants to teach artificial intelligence how to tell a tale and tell it well. Lara is a Computing Innovation Fellow postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches AI to generate stories and produce language that is natural and human-like. She reveals why we need to train machines how to be storytellers and what Dungeons & Dragons has to do with it all. People have been telling stories since before we could write; we're natural storytellers. So if machines were able to tell and understand stories as well, we'd be able to communicate with them more naturally.

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Scientists at Microsoft Research and their colleagues are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can tell stories based on photos. The aim is not just to explain what items are in the picture, but also what appears to be happening and how it might potentially make a person feel, US-based website livescience.com For example, if a person is shown a picture of a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a long, white dress, instead of saying, "This is a bride and groom," he or she might say, "My friends got married. They look really happy; it was a beautiful wedding." "The goal is to help give AIs more human-like intelligence, to help it understand things on a more abstract level and what it means to be fun or creepy or weird or interesting," Margaret Mitchell, study senior author said.

Artificial intelligence may one day embrace the meaning of the expression "A picture is worth a thousand words," as scientists are now teaching programs to describe images as humans would. Someday, computers may even be able to explain what is happening in videos just as people can, the researchers said in a new study. Computers have grown increasingly better at recognizing faces and other items within images. Recently, these advances have led to image captioning tools that generate literal descriptions of images. Now, scientists at Microsoft Research and their colleagues are developing a system that can automatically describe a series of images in much the same way a person would by telling a story.

Men who are not tall, dark and handsome may want to brush up on their storytelling skills. A new study has revealed males who can spin a good yarn are seen as more attractive to women. Females also perceive strong storytellers as being more important and of higher status in society. A new study has revealed males who spin a good yarn (illustrated by a stock image) are more attractive to women. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University at Buffalo (SUNY) asked 388 students, 55 per cent of whom were women, to rate the attractiveness of a potential partner based on a written description – much as they might on an online dating site.