If you’re a writer, should the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence worry you? Or is AI more likely to actually enhance your writing? This fascinating book charts the recent history of AI-driven ‘story machines’, probing their strengths and weaknesses, and what they can tell us about the creative writing process." Over time, the whole Story Machine project could turn into something like Episode, which enables consumers to create their own comic-like, interactive stories. Story Machine and Gatehouse Press are delighted to announce that we have merged to create a bigger publisher able to do more to support talented new writers into print.

Beautiful, sensual, sexy and sad. The first novel in a while to make me weep. Bradington Bay is a journey you need to make’ Kev McCready He said you won’t be able to just type in a text prompt and get a game generated automatically. Something like Story Machine, however, removes the need for the game creator to be an outstanding artist at the outset. So far Story Machine is using DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. DALL-E tends to create better photorealistic art, while Stable Diffusion is good at anime, Kaplan said. While it’s not likely that generative AI can spit out awesome games anytime soon, helping game creators with tools that can help them generate better art is a big opportunity, said James Kaplan, CEO of Meetkai, one of Dai’s metaverse platform companies, in an interview with GamesBeat. I attended an event with Deirdre Madden – she had edited a collection of Irish short stories called All Over Ireland and was reading bits of Colm Tóibín and Mary Morrissey. She wanted people to hear it so she could hone in on the bits she especially liked. There was a great line from the Morrissey story ‘Emergency’ where a fighter plane crashes and the parachute ‘faints’ behind the tree. Well that’s just gorgeous. That event had a flavour of close reading. It wasn’t intimidating or scary, people seemed to enjoy it. How can we ensure that the beauty in books, the thing that makes them memorable, is retained in an event? That’s a challenge I feel keenly.Many companies are experimenting with AI,” said Kaplan. “But most are in the R&D stage. We’re excited to partner with Robot Invader to leverage the Story Machine platform that our customers can deploy today to bring generative 2D content to the metaverse.” Story Machine is committed to putting the environment first. This book is printed using processes that are: But I think the breakthrough for me was with Roald Dahl. I can remember getting a book token as a present and buying George’s Marvellous Medicineand reading it in a velveteen beanbag in my grandparents’ house. I read it all in one sitting which was the first time I had ever done that. A lot of Roald Dahl’s books spoke to me. His language, these great escapades the characters get into. But it was probably Matildathat I most related to – I thought she was the bees knees and that I might be a bit like her. One of the theories that we had is that it’s going to be pretty pivotal to make it much cheaper to produce metaverse content,” said Kaplan. “The idea of Story Machine and Robot Invader is the idea of leveraging generative art. But we are still providing the tooling around a no-code environment for how you bring together the game context.” Story machine will let creators create without needing to learn how to code or draw. Stories have been computer-generated for decades by a curious assortment of programmers, artists, and authors. Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez tell their stories, providing a rich, broad history that will interest and inform anyone interested in the future of literary art."

Sally-Anne Lomas lives in Norfolk. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Creative Director of the Cloth of Kindness health and well-being textile art project. She runs writing and movement for well-being workshops.Ready-to-play Tonie figures comes pre-loaded with songs and stories from your favourite characters. Take bedtime stories wherever you travel with Audiobook Tonies from Disney and Julia Donaldson, or dance along to Music Tonies with fun songs. Each hand-painted Tonie features a cute character design for playtime on and off the Toniebox. Story Machine is committed to doing good. We strive to have a net positive social, environmental, and artistic impact. We are transitioning to Environmentally friendly energy and business practices, including how we print, distribute, and promote our books, and the way we source .

In her thoughtful introduction to All Over Ireland, Madden urges us not to take for granted the act of reading and to remember that the ‘direct relationship between a reader and a writer – private, contemplative, born out of silence – is to be valued more and more as the cultural cacophony around us increases’. This work is needed. The last NHS Staff Survey suggested morale and health of NHS workers is plummeting. More than 1 in 3 feel burnt out because of their work, while 47.5% say they don’t look forward to going to work and 31.1% often think about leaving. This is a national crisis that effects the lives of NHS workers, but also impacts on the experience of everyone who engages with the NHS, including patients and their families. We know that NHS Staff are passionate about the NHS, and we believe that WORKING WELL will make a positive contribution to helping the NHS retain and more effectively support talented and hard working staff. A stunning, immersive experience that carries you thousands of miles from Millennium Plain to the Antarctic wilds, and reminds you of everything we have to lose if we don’t take better care of our planet’ Sarah Bower While generative AI takes the first pass at art, the humans on the team take over once they get a better idea of where to go. And humans can also create their own pools of foundational material for the generative AI to use to create its own creations. Kaplan said generative AI could be used for localization, sound effects or dialogue. Story Machine creates a set of flows that guide a creator so the likelihood of creating something useful is higher.I adored Malory Towers, The Secret Seven, The Famous Five. The Twins at St Clare’sleft me looking at my life in comparison to theirs in this posh boarding school and their picnics with constant lashings of ginger beer and big fat pies. Blyton writes an impossible-to-match picnic! My granny was the big reader in my childhood. She would go to the library once a fortnight and for each of these trips she would get her hair and nails done – she was glam like that! She’d take out a big fat Stephen King or eight, read them in a fortnight, and get more two weeks later. She would drag me along, and after the library we would go and have a sausage roll – I had beans on mine – and I would borrow books to read and swap and share with my friends.

We think the use cases are going to range from individual creators to smaller studios that are going to ship games are using Story Machine today. The AI use can vary for the various cohorts. AI is an incredible tool for art and pre-production use cases,” Love said. A masterful and highly accessible overview of exciting developments in computer-generated literature by two experts in the field." Magical, imaginative and emotional journey. Inspirational and evocative. A jigsaw of experiences and memories.’ Wigtown Book FestivalToniebox kids’ speakers replace over-stimulating screens with simple tactile controls. And once a bedtime story has finished, the Toniebox will automatically turn itself off and go to sleep. Easy, screen-free bedtimes is just one reason this kids’ audio speaker is loved by parents.