Posts tagged machine learning
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The Ever-Unfolding Plot: How AI and Biometrics Could Allow Stories to Adapt to Each Reader's Experience
You settle into your favorite reading chair, eager to escape into the latest book from your favorite author. As you open to chapter one, you know the next few hours will transport you into an entirely new world. What you don’t yet realize is that the story about to unfold before your eyes is one that has never existed before—and may never exist again in quite the same way. AI and machine learning have given rise to a...
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Machine Learning and Bestseller Prediction: More Than Words Can Say
There’s been much recent conjecture on whether book sales can be predicted by text analysis alone. My company, Kadaxis, has dedicated the past few years to machine learning research and product development for the publishing industry. In our early days, we set out to build an algorithm to predict bestsellers, and tested it in the wild. In this post, I’ll share my perspectives on why the text alone isn’t enough. If Yo...
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Do Writers Write What Readers Want To Read?
View image | gettyimages.com Have you ever wondered if the genres authors most enjoy writing in, match the genres readers most enjoy reading? Before self-publishing, all new books for sale were filtered by agents and publishers, who acquired and worked on books they thought would sell well. If there was an oversupply of manuscripts by authors in a particular genre, the competition to be chosen and published within th...