I was reading the other day on Gizmodo a fascinating post about a bunch of computer scientists who have trained artificial intelligence using human knowledge of the, uh, carnal variety. Specifically, they used 14 million passages of romance novels to create little stories about images.
Artificial intelligence has been trained to identify animals in photos or describe videos. Last week, Google said it’s using it to generate responses to your emails.
Ryan Kiros, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, has now created the Neural-Storyteller, a network trained to analyze images and retrieve appropriate captions from its vast store of sexy knowledge, creating little stories about images.
For example, this is the story the Neural-Storyteller created about these two Sumo wrestlers:
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Some of the stories make more sense than others. Much like the subject of the following photo, I guess:
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And how about this little gem about Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs?
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I guess we have a ways to go before Skynet takes over the planet. But I do see a new version of Misery where a computer/robot kidnaps a writer to force them to rewrite a novel in a romance series.
Tweet ThisRead the entire post at Gizmodo and thanks to The Passive Guy for the tip.
The instructions I got in a few Christmas presents apparently were written with AI, by comparison to these examples.
Lol – I know what you mean 😀
At least it doesn’t seem like we’re all going to be replaced any time soon. I dont see any of those becoming bestsellers…?
Maybe in the “incredibly silly humor” subgenre 😉
And only maybe…
… and then publishes it under its own name! Oh, the humanity! 😀
Yep, that’s how it all starts 😀
Those were so weird and funny. I was very skeptical that an A.I. could write a book…I feel validated! I’ll be long gone before robots can compete with human writers 🙂
I suspect you’re right 😉
Not my thing at all, Nicholas. Thanks for highlighting it.
Best wishes, Pete.
Lol – yes, I can’t say it’s my thing either 🙂
I can see this work becoming a very sellable book…in the humor section, but still! Look out writers, we’re in danger.
Lol – yes, in the “irreverent humor” subgenre 😀
Oh, yes, I’ve read the book where that happens.
Lol – link, please 😀
The last one had me rolling on the floor! LOL!!!
Lol – I know, right?? 😀
That would be a hard sell, I would think.
Leslie
Lol – you think?? 😀
I do. Happy New Year Nicholas, to you and your lovely family.
Leslie
Data from StarTrek could have done MUCH better!
Lol – he sure could! 😀
Computer’s got some serious POV switching errors here. Man, these were hilarious! And also really relieving, because I was concerned this post was going to be more along the lines of “computer produces romantic novel and it’s amazing and all authors are now out of business”. Thank goodness it wasn’t that!
Ha ha – no, looks like Erin’s safe for now 😀
Oh no! I’ve been outsourced.
Well, it can be pretty hard for a snail to type.
Can’t wait for the first RITA won by a robot…
Lol – that’s a scary thought! 😀
That was rather creepy. Still, I’ve read worse.
Ha ha – yes, that’s true 😀
Until they teach them to feel….
What would it generate from the robotic sex scene from the film “Heavy Metal”? 🙂
Lol – I now wish I had access to the code to find out 😀
Just goes to show it takes more than words to make a story 🙂
Very well said!
🙂
I agree there’s a way to go before the AI gets the complete idea. Hilarious. 😀 — Suzanne
Yes, I almost feel bad for the poor machines… 😀
Fortunately I can see a robot creating scenes of sex but not scenes of emotion so we should be safe a while yet…………until the kidnappings start.
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Lol – rise of the machines. It’s happening – and they’re amorous 😀