Holy moly!
http://hackaday.com/2017/07/14/a-neural-network-can-now-be-your-writing-assistant/
Original, more informative post here:
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/
"The results are interesting. [Robin] himself says “it’s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.”
Sounds about like my last attempt at incorporating markov into Pythia, ha. Going to be playing with this this afternoon for sure!
#SoloPlayWithAlgorithms
http://hackaday.com/2017/07/14/a-neural-network-can-now-be-your-writing-assistant/
I messed around a little with some source files; it's surprisingly hard to find lists of 200 things or so you might run into in a dungeon in reasonably close to full sentence format that are also public domain or CC licensed. I gave up and grabbed a couple sets from Elfmaids and Octopi but obviously can't release them as part of Pythia.
ReplyDelete> Painted gloomy underworld mural on ceiling by best artists of time.
> Podiums with mummified bodies built into alcove wall as artwork, shiny stuff inside.
Hey, look, it's Skyrim! Haha.
I also tried a movie dialogue (Mortal Remains, I think it's a horror movie) transcript.
> You know, he was dead.
> I'm telling you, I don't know how to summon demons.
And just the dialogue from an ebook (Guilty Pleasures, horror-romance).
> That was what to do.
> If he had been promised money.
I think it could definitely be fine-tuned further; I just extracted the dialogue with a python script and it wasn't perfect by any means. Or maybe a movie subtitle file or something could be utilized.
Haha, that is awesome.
ReplyDeleteYep, I am seriously thinking a manually curated dialogue from a good book or movie with a lot of punchy dialogue would be the best source. With a Python-pulled pile of dialogue from a fairly bad text render I ended up with a bunch of extraneous stuff and more than a few gibberish results.
ReplyDeleteI am, however, way too lazy to edit manually.