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We 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 st
by gwern 9y ago
We 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.