{"id":77892,"date":"2018-04-17T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/artificial-intelligence-is-writing-fairy-tales-now-and-humanity-is-doomed"},"modified":"2018-04-17T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:02:39","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-writing-fairy-tales-now-and-humanity-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/artificial-intelligence-is-writing-fairy-tales-now-and-humanity-is-doomed","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is writing fairy tales now, and humanity is doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-is-writing-fairy-tales-now-and-humanity-is-doomed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s started to feel like all summer blockbuster movies are being written by robots [<em>INSERT FORMER PRO WRESTLER, INSERT GIANT CGI ANIMAL<\/em>], you\u2019ll be disquieted to learn that that future may not be too far off.<\/p>\n<p>The meditation app Calm teamed up with the tech team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botnik.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Botnik<\/a> to write a new Brothers Grimm-style fairy tale entirely through artificial intelligence. By inputting the data from existing Brothers Grimm stories and using predictive text technology (and with a few human writers stitching things together), the group at Botnik crafted \u201cThe Princess and the Fox,\u201d a story about \u201ca talking fox [who] helps the lowly miller\u2019s son to rescue the beautiful princess from the fate of having to marry a dreadful prince who she does not love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing for the Brothers Grimm what Jurassic Park did for dinosaurs,\u201d says Michael Acton Smith, co-founder of Calm, in a press press release. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing them back from the dead, with modern science.\u201d (It perhaps bears remembering here that Jurassic Park famously did not end well.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ew.com\/books\/2018\/04\/17\/artificial-intelligence-brothers-grimm-fairy-tales\/\">http:\/\/ew.com\/books\/2018\/04\/17\/artificial-intelligence-broth...iry-tales\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it\u2019s started to feel like all summer blockbuster movies are being written by robots [INSERT FORMER PRO WRESTLER, INSERT GIANT CGI ANIMAL], you\u2019ll be disquieted to learn that that future may not be too far off. The meditation app Calm teamed up with the tech team at Botnik to write a new Brothers Grimm-style [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}