"I want to talk to you": See the creepy, romantic poetry that came out of a Google AI system

"i want to talk to you." "i want to be with you." "i don't want to be with you." i don't want to be with you. What reads like bad teen poetry is actually supposed to help Google sound more human. Researchers from the company's deep learning arm, Google Brain, is hoping to find ways to make its search and apps understand and adapt to the way people actually speak--in part by feeding 2,865 romance novels to an AI system. The unpublished paper was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations on May 3. It shows how the team of linguists and computer scientists poured 11,000 yet unpublished books--including nearly 3,000 romance and 1,500 fantasy novels--into a neural network model, which is meant to mimic how the human brain works. Next, the researchers presented the system with two sentences from the books and asked it to generate sentences that could create a meaningful progression between the two.