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Ask HN: Is InspiroBot a real AI?
This site: http://inspirobot.me/
I was wondering whether it's a real AI (neural network trained with sample motivational posters) or whether they're just joking around and it's random solutions inserted into templates?
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- PuzzlingPoss 9y agoI'm also interested in this question, chiefly because the quotes do not seem purely "random", as some media are describing them - even in the sense of syntactically correct but random - and because there doesn't appear to be readily available information from the creators.
- Fiachaire 9y agoI'm fairly certain it isn't. It's phrases are repeated, certain nouns or other parts of speech are used way more than I would imagine a neural network would be limited to.
- evickers 9y agoI think this may be the latest in a long tradition of fake AI, dating back to the original Mechanical Turk (chess-playing automaton with a man inside). There are a few recognizable madlibs-like patterns. For example: "Unleashing bad karma is a joke where the punchline is that you get very, very sick", and "Realizing the full potential of hell is a joke where the punchline is that you fake your own death". Occasionally the photos repeat as well. But if they're all written using a fill-in-the-blanks format, there must be an enormous number of templates. Maybe they analyze thousands of famous quotes and randomly replace various parts of speech. While InspiroBot may be AI-assisted, I suspect the quotes are largely human-written, or at least heavily curated. Maybe this is my anthropocentrism speaking, but most of them seem too good to be AI-written. They don't have that meandering pointlessness of most AI poetry. For example, "The things we find beautiful are actually just thoughts circling a fire." Or, "Could it be that eternal particles are eternal particles because you're overthinking things?" Or my favorite: "Science is just mother nature playing with herself." (My modest contribution to the fake AI genre was a song-creation program called "Turd Polisher Pro", released on April Fool's Day, 2010. The web page included "before" and "after" sound files that demonstrated how the program can automatically turn a drunken voicemail message into a polished, commercial piece of music. Of course, the song was written first; the drunken voicemail recording reused some of the same phrases and themes.)