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Augmented content creation: Harry Potter
- Angostura 9y agoI've just woken the wife up laughing. Is there some explanation of how this was constructed?
- dna_polymerase 9y ago> We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643 https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643
- maxander 9y agoThe relative narrative coherence and the use of the term “predictive keyboards” instead of Markov-somethings has me fairly convinced this was actually just written by a human. Still funny, though.
- jerf 9y agoI think "used predictive keyboards" leaves enough wiggle room that there can be a human looking at the handful of suggestions and navigating through them, while letting the autosuggestions work their surreal magic. It seems a powerful combo to me. I love me a good Markov chain composition, but yeah, they really lack in the coherence department, which means they are whiffing on a level of good humor. Edit: here's the tool: http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe144a2e9b1e3,0e155979285771266d520c44607722a1 http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe1... My preliminary playing suggests there is definitely substantial human intervention. But the results are fun.
- danso 9y agoHow are predictive typing algorithms different from markov chains?
- michaelmior 9y agoI believe the suggestion was that the keyboard offered up multiple options and a human chose from the available options.
- glenstein 9y ago>while letting the autosuggestions work their surreal magic I think that (unfortunately) gives way too much to the autosuggestions, and that the humans are doing the vast majority of the creative work. My predictive keyboard on android offers 3 words, and if I try, I can delay the trap of falling into a loop and get a small amount of diversity in my sentences. If I had 18 words to work with, and they were specifically trained on the content of Harry Potter, that's a lot of room to exercise the kind of creativity that is still (for now) unique to humans.
- Apocryphon 9y agoWhomever wrote this is quite the Racter
- summerfreeze 9y agoThe sentences were generated using predictive keyboards, and then the sentences were arranged into a story by a human editor, according to an article I read about it.
- vadimberman 9y agoSo basically extracted noun phrases and concatenated where the grammar fits? I think I've seen it before somewhere.
- rangibaby 9y agoIt’s like a dream. It makes sense at a certain level but is completely nonsense on others.
- briga 9y agoDoes anyone know what technique they're using to generate this? I've seen similar things done with LSTMs, but the results generally aren't nearly as clean or comprehensible as the text here.
- ajuc 9y agoYou can try it yourself. It gives you 18 choices for each word, basing the choices on the predictive engine and previous words. It's basically written by a human. http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe144a2e9b1e3,0e155979285771266d520c44607722a1 http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=d08198a9a936f791b7ffe1...
- skymt 9y agoIt's perhaps less interesting as technology than pure machine-generated text, but I find it fascinating creatively. In practice it's a collaboration where the machine provides absurdity, and the human writer shapes it into a form that humans can easily read and enjoy. Traditional machine-generated text often has too many sharp edges to work as surrealist humor.
- dangoor 9y ago"Harry asked professor mcgonagall for his glasses and she threw owl treats up his trousers." Well, that was fun.
- gwern 9y agoWe had an argument on IRC about whether it was possible that this was written by a char-RNN or a word-RNN and concluded it wasn't, because it maintains world state too well, never misspells things, an some things should not ever appear because they don't appear in the books' text (like nowhere inside the novels do they ever refer to the titles, of course, so how would a NN learn the naming scheme 'Harry Potter and the X of Y'?). Not to mention the narrative arc! The predictive keyboard explained all this, plus the crowdsourcing & editing it all into order. It's probably better to think of it as a kind of souped-up Mad Libs than augmentation or AI.
- rootw0rm 9y agowhat did i just read!? this is pure comedy gold. i'm genuinely interested in how it came up with some bits.
- 2bitencryption 9y agoI'll be honest, I've definitely read fanfiction that was far less comprehensible.
- bitwize 9y agoStill a better Harry Potter fanfic than My Immortal...
- cairo_x 9y ago"Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself" "Leathery sheets of rain" This is more witty and literary than anything JKR could come up with. 100% Would Read.
- make3 9y agoIt's not actually an AI written chapter. This is false representation. AI generated text still doesn't know how to make a story stay on topic and slowly progress like this, while somewhat still make sense for the characters (even as poor as it does in this)
- CamelCaseName 9y agoThis is incredibly hilarious. Is there somewhere I could buy the book?
- vadimberman 9y ago> great black ceiling, which was full of blood Q: What colour is your new car? A: You know the colour of the sea wave? The same, but red.
- dangoor 9y agoMy daughter, who read many Rainbow Magic books a few years ago, suggested that a predictive system like this could probably be used to make realistic Rainbow Magic books.
- glenstein 9y agoAs mentioned by make3 and ajuc, this is not a pure creation of machine learning. It's a human-algorithm collaboration. Everything that's interesting about this is probably the work of human judgment to maintain a sense of high-level salience & meaning in the story.
- holic 9y agoThe comic version of this is pretty great, too: https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/941096945308770304 https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/941096945308770304