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Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter (cnet.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes, "Some AI news items are amusing. This is one of those." ProKras reports:
What do you get when a predictive keyboard app tries to write a new Harry Potter story? Apparently, you get Chapter 13 from Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash.
The folks at Botnik Studios trained their keyboard using all 7 Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling. They used one set of training data for narration and another for dialogue. Then a bunch of team members got together in a chat room and pitched the best (worst?) lines created using the keyboard, and Botnik editors assembled them into a cohesive(ish) chapter of a story.
The results are about as ridiculous as you might imagine. For example, at one point Ron Weasley "saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione's family. Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself." It is never explained how Hermonie knew that the password to a certain locked door was "BEEF WOMEN," nor why "the pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog." Maybe that was covered in Chapter 12.
The folks at Botnik Studios trained their keyboard using all 7 Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling. They used one set of training data for narration and another for dialogue. Then a bunch of team members got together in a chat room and pitched the best (worst?) lines created using the keyboard, and Botnik editors assembled them into a cohesive(ish) chapter of a story.
The results are about as ridiculous as you might imagine. For example, at one point Ron Weasley "saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione's family. Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself." It is never explained how Hermonie knew that the password to a certain locked door was "BEEF WOMEN," nor why "the pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog." Maybe that was covered in Chapter 12.
Harry and I don't have any of the things that he has to do know that is a good thing he said he was a great person to be able when he did it all and over time he said was that they had been involved and they were not supposed to be involved with any regularity of their employees.
With the help of a little LSD, we could probably understand it.
Sabbath? It's Saturday you numbskull.
Soon computers will generate better entertainment than people.
A majority of books published on Amazon are garbage anyways and all Hollywood is able to produce nowadays is sequels of sequels, or reboots switching genders and races but keeping the same vapid plots.
To anyone from a distant future reading this: please know that it's our greed and laziness that paved the way to a world dominated by machines; whatever nightmarish AI-driven civilization you live in is basically self-inflicted.
lucm, indeed.
The results are about as ridiculous as you might imagine. For example, at one point Ron Weasley "saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione's family. Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself." It is never explained how Hermonie knew that the password to a certain locked door was "BEEF WOMEN," nor why "the pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog."
Well, that makes as much sense as the rest of Harry "Plot Hole" Potter.
The Jewish Sabbath is Saturday. And for Muslims, it is Friday. Also, due to time zones, it is already Sunday in many places.
Suddenly, Rian Johnston can explain The Last Star Wars.
... it's still a better love story than Twilight.
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They tried to implement an infinite number of monkeys.
Proving once and for all, that Harry Potter sells, even if you title it "Harry Potter and the Shameless Money Grab"
This is just a bunch of geeks playing Madlibs on a computer...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
This chapter is far more coherent, and infinitely more entertaining, than most of Donald Trumps bumbling blatherskite speeches.
"If you two can't clump happily, I'm going to get aggressive," confessed the reasonable Hermione.
9-11 was a Jew job
"Not so handsome now", thought Harry as he dipped Hermione in hot source...
What is this, slashdot trolling?
/. Is a few days behind reddit, this was a post there on /r/all
And just when you thought it can't get any worse than Star Trek Fanfic...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yeah but just to be safe wrap up the food and put it in the fridge, lest He eat it all and fart up the place.
Judging by your pictures, you're not named for a salad bar.
Goat vaginas look human
Feel the same in the dark
Do not disturb 1919 Fruitdale
Not "the" you delusional fruitcake.
Please educate yourself. I know Americans are proud of their ignorance but this is embarrassing.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6530
Are you a Jews For Jesus nutcase?
You do know that Jesus was Jewish?
Here's output I generated with one that is trained on Carl Sagan's Cosmos:
The universe is finite but unbounded. The red shift of the cosmos in terms of the speed of light is generated from the same laws underlying nature.
There are many different ways in which stars are born in our universe; in all directions that we know of light is generated then it takes millions of years until its density becomes enriched in heavy elements. Virtually everything else in our universe has been sculpted by change: the earth, the sun, and the moon and the stars.
Some think that when we go to the very edge of the cosmos, there will be no brains quite like ours. Mutation and natural selection are basically random processes sparked in our genes and so fast that there must be 28,000 times more information content in our human species as the earth has mechanisms to form new knowledge. Our individual dots of information content, like our universe, have survived slow stages of human history ; such changes can clearly be determined from everyday experience.
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Are you a Jews For Jesus nutcase?
You do know that Jesus was Jewish?
Please educate yourself. I know Yuropeens are proud of their ignorance but this is embarassing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm sorry. I thought you were being a racist Christian. Carry on.
It's Black Sabbath weakling.
But having a computer creating a story with just having existing stories and data as input without putting any constraints can give you some really sick results. That's what made the Microsoft Bot a racist and it had to be taken down.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Ron smiled. Ron reached for his wand slowly.
"Ron's the handsome one", muttered Harry as he reluctantly reach for his. [...]. Ron flinched.
"Not so handsome now", thought Harry as he dipped Hermione in hot sauce.
Or would that be cannibalism?
Fucking intolerant hateful discriminating abusive asshole (in short: SJW) bully!
" Tradition holds that he died at Lycia on the southern coast of Asia Minor about the year 251."
So he can't have borne Jesus 250 years or so after he died. Therefore, not "the". I know crammar and English are not your strong points, Chris, but for fuck's sake, you're a published author!
No no, today is the small bath. The day that Chris has an aide give him a sponge bath, because he can't reach his own back.
Your daddy's skynet this AI is not. Even Arnold had better lines than this AI written mess.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
It's called a miracle, dumb ass. Your lack of faith doesn't change the story or that the name Christopher is also known as THE Christ-bearer. We each have to carry our own cross before God.