The latest step forward in creating chatty AI, New york Times is reporting some high-quality prose from the research labs of Narrative Sciences. Goodbye Choose Your Own Adventure as a narrative style…

Narrative Sciences, a start-up in Evanston, Illinois, has developed a sophisticated program that can write articles—typically sports summaries—in under 60 seconds according to the New York Times. Previous iterations of the artificial intelligence used “fill in the blanks” that drew from statistics to automatically generate articles, but the prose felt stiff and reflectively robot-like.

Now the technology’s been refined to the point that it’s able to write with a realistic human-like voice while generating story angles directly from the box score. For example, if a baseball team scores three runs in the ninth inning to steal the game 3-2, the software recognizes the pattern and deems it a “come from behind victory.” It can discern when big victories are a “rout” instead of a “win,” too.

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