The world got a look at some AI-penned poetry this week. ©VLADGRIN/Shutterstock.com
In order to give Google's AI system a more varied – even conversational – tone, developers have been feeding the interface with thousands of romance novels. The result? A collection of post-modern-esque "poems".
The art of conversation is one that not even all humans fully master. However, following feedback from users that Google's artificial intelligence system, dubbed "Parsey McParseface," came across as stilted and unnatural, despite (or possibly due in part to) its perfect grammar, engineers decided to teach the bot a few literary tricks. Lessons came in the form of 2,685 romance novels, fed into the neural network over several months.
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