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The relative narrative coherence and the use of the term “predictive keyboards” instead of Markov-somethings has me fairly convinced this was actually just writ

The 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 ago
I 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 ago
  How are predictive typing algorithms different from markov chains?
  - michaelmior 9y ago
    I 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 ago
Whomever wrote this is quite the Racter
summerfreeze 9y ago
The 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.

jerf 9y ago

I 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 ago
How are predictive typing algorithms different from markov chains?
- michaelmior 9y ago
  I 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 ago

Whomever wrote this is quite the Racter

summerfreeze 9y ago

The 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.