Researchers at Google Brain, the company's AI-focused deep learning project, presented a paper earlier this month that detailed techniques they used to teach its AI to write fiction — and the results were unexpectedly haunting.
The paper, first reported by*Quartz, details Google's method, which involved using thousands of romance **vels and other works of fiction to "train" the AI. The company then fed the model two sentences to serve as a starting point and endpoint and tasked it with generating transition sentences in between. Read more...