Google's AI model has learned to write poetry using romance novels

In Mountain View, California, a legion of competitors is vying for first place in the race to develop a self-sufficient form of artificial intelligence (AI). While self-driving cars are fast defining the future of transportation, and AI gaming systems are becoming a reality, the idea of a truly autonomous AI is often tied to the promise of computers capable of tackling the complexities of language. Growth had previously been stunted due to the primitive processing powers of these machines. However, recent advancements at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley have helped researchers take a step towards a linguistically adept AI. Google Brain, a research project exploring deep learning (a branch of machine learning), presented a paper earlier this month at the International Conference on Learning Representations, detailing the methods employed to teach its AI how to better communicate with language.