I understand
AI stories
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The search engine Bing now has sophisticated AI and you can ask it to make up stories. I tried it once cautiously last night and the results were... well, promising. You can ask for something either creative, precise, or balanced. I provided a summary of about 200 words and checked "creative". Bing began the story nicely, with a page ending with where the guy got stuck. I asked for "continue". With the second page he wandered away from the car, and the story drifted off into something irrelevant. My reply was to describe his efforts to get unstuck. The new second page was better and the story finished in line with my original request.
Apparently you are allowed only three replies/instructions, in addition to the original request, per day unless you create an account.
I was assuming that requesting "creative" would be the best for producing stories, but perhaps balanced or precise would have prevented the program from giving me its first second page.
Who has elicited stuck stories from Bing or other new artificial intelligence sites (what would the URLs of others be)? Have you developed a sense of how to get the best results? For instance, how detailed should your original request be? I thought that mine might be on the long side but perhaps not. It was well below Bing's limit of four thousand characters.
Sometime I will give it another try, doing my best to remain anonymous (although that may be unnecessary), giving a similar request but with a
hint that the driver began to enjoy the experience of being stuck. -
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Another I've enjoyed is Squibler. Unfortunately its replies are limited to 4000 words per month (or is it just 4000 characters), which you can burn through in five minutes, unless you pay. Then you get unlimited usage for the duration. I haven't used it to complete a story-- it would probably elicit something either bland and obvious or completely off-topic. But I wrote one paragraph by paragraph, highlighted a section, and clicked on either "Describe" or "Expand". The responses appearing in the right column, next to my own text, can be substantial and are usually fun to read and save. Only rarely do they get the facts wrong or contain anything ridiculous. It's remarkable how they sometimes almost read my mind, correctly divining a character's motives, even though I may have only implied them. For instance, "He bought the car with the intention of getting stuck in it." In addition to your basic text, you can create characters and list their personality traits or other attributes. Presumably the program takes all these into account when a text you highlight specifies who is doing what.
We are warned in general that these systems recognize and reject attempts to produce pornography, so I didn't want to cross the line. But what I wrote was sometimes extremely sensuous and suggestive. A human reader would see that it was erotica immediately. But the program played right along. Sometimes a response was even more so. Not being too explicit probably makes for better writing in any event. After all, not even we always know what would turn someone else on. It will be awhile before AI knows that better than we do.
"Expand" usually produces two responses, "Describe" perhaps three or four. Once they appear, be careful where you click. At the bottom of each response is an icon for copying it to the Windows clipboard, from which you can paste it into Notepad. Then click somewhere on
the response column to scroll. If you click elsewhere, the responses instantly disappear.Reviewers suggest alternative systems that they like even better than Squibler. I'm eager to try some of them.
