Seattle · Thursday, November 19, 2026
Distinguished Lecture Series: Léon Bottou (Flatiron Institute) - The Fiction Machine
Distinguished Lecture Series: Léon Bottou (Flatiron Institute) - The Fiction Machine on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM PST at Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium (Culture). Best for: preschool, school-age.
Imagine a machine that can read a story and generate a meaningful continuation, that is, one that complies with the narrative demands of the story and makes sense to a meaningful fraction of the readers. Because what is true in the world of the story needs not be true in our world, this machine cannot be expected to say the truth. It only knows narrative…
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