Google's neural network is now writing sappy poetry

As Wired reports, Google's team "inspired" the poetry by giving the system two sentences from the books it had read and telling it to reproduce a new sentence based on the data set of 11,000 books it had just plowed through. "come with me," she said. "talk to me," she said. "don't worry about it," she said. While it might not win any Pulitzers at the moment, the neural network's writing homework could eventually lead to smarter, more human-seeming chatbots.