Parece brincadeira: "The What-If Machine"

Um grupo de pesquisa que envolve cinco equipes europeias se propôs a criar um sistema de software capaz de inventar, avaliar e apresentar ideias de ficção com valor cultural real para artefatos, tais como histórias, piadas, filmes, pinturas e anúncios. Eles são financiados como STREP (projeto de investigação de curto prazo) pelo programa FP7 da Comissão Europeia, especificamente para abordar objetivo ICT-2013/08/01: Tecnologias e fundações científicas no campo da criatividade.

O grupo trabalha com as seguintes hipóteses:

Fonte aqui. Um exemplo de resultado:

• What if there was a buffalo who woke up in a dog pound, and had become a dog that was able to see a colour?
• What if there was a whale who woke up in a house, and had become a dog that was able to drive an automobile?
• What if there was a bug who woke up in a basket, and had become a cat that was able to drive a car?
• What if there was a zebra who woke up on a sunny windowsill, and had become a cat that was able to ride a bike?
• What if there was a marmoset who woke up in a house, and had become a dog that was able to speak?
• What if there was an ox who woke up in a barn, and had become a cat that was able to do housework?
• What if there was a finch who woke up in a house, and had become a cat that was able to eat a flower?
• What if there was a seal who woke up in an apartment, and had become a cat that was able to play a sport?
• What if there was a seal who woke up on a table, and had become a dog that was able to climb well?
• What if there was a bee who woke up in a backyard, and had become a cat that was able to drive a car?

Não sei se é possível usar essas ideias em uma redação do ENEM, mas é até criativo e um tanto louco. De qualquer forma, estamos ainda muito longe do famoso HAL 9000 de 2001: Uma Odisseia no Espaço (1968).

O software gera mini-narrativas ou histórias de ficção utilizando técnicas de processamento de linguagem natural e um banco de dados de fatos extraídos da web, que funciona como um repositório de fatos "verdadeiros". O software então inverte ou torce os fatos para criar questões do tipo "O que acontece se" (fonte aqui).