A computer made up stories about these 13 photos and the results are hilarious

Storytelling may be quintessential human act, but computers are quickly catching up.

Developer Samim Winiger has merged image-recognition and language-processing software to birth an open-source program that can take an image and make up a story about it on the spot.

To give it human-like language, Winiger leaned on two AI models built by University of Toronto PhD student Ryan Kiros - one armed with 14 million passages from romance novels and the other with Taylor Swift Lyrics.

Winiger's AI looks for recognizable objects in an image, finds passages that contain the object in its lusty and lyrical repertoire, and then organizes it into a mini-story.

To test the software, he summoned 5,000 random images from the web. Scroll down to see 13 of Tech Insider's favorite hilariously nonsensical (and unedited) stories.