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Why are Google AI bots reading romance and fantasy novels? |
2016-05-24 |
Google’s robots are reading SO much cheap erotica.
No, this isn’t dopey teenage poetry. A robot wrote it. In their quest to make artificial intelligence more and more human-like, Google is letting the bots try their hand at free verse romantic poetry. The bots were asked to fill in the blanks between two lines. The AI isn’t just meant to link sentences together, the aim is to link those sentences together in a way that mimics natural speech. In order to give the bots a wide vocabulary and a sense of natural rhythm, Google needed them to read books ‐ and a shit tonne of them. What’s the biggest genre of crappy, easy-to-emulate books? Romance. Google force-fed the AI 2865 romance books, and about 1500 fantasy books. Pity these robots. They’re learning from cheap, bodice-ripping romance books. |
Posted by:3dc |
#4 The reason there are so many of these books is that they sell well. That is the tragic takeaway. |
Posted by: Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 2016-05-24 18:29 |
#3 At this point I am almost rooting for the robots to destroy humans... |
Posted by: DarthVader 2016-05-24 17:55 |
#2 Geez are we trying to get the robots to destroy humans? |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-05-24 10:28 |
#1 Well, the human personnel are too busy scrubbing the links of anything other than Marxism/Progressiveism. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-05-24 08:19 |