The best text-generating AI programs too often produce confused and disjointed prose. This kind of spontaneous yet coherent storytelling is extremely difficult for artificial intelligence, even as AI has mastered more constrained board games such as chess and Go.
Fans of games like Dungeons & Dragons know that the fun comes, in part, from a creative Dungeon Master-an all-powerful narrator who follows a storyline but has free rein to improvise in response to players’ actions and the fate of the dice.
