Google's Smart Reply system produces strange poetry after reading romance novels

For the past few months, Google has been feeding erotic novels into a neural network with the hope of improving its conversation abilities and personality. Ignited, Fatal Desire and Jacked Up were just a few of the steamy romance novels on the AI's reading list. Now a selection of strange poems, or'homotopies', the AI has'written' after reading the novels has been published. The search giant's research team has witnessed the AI transcribe sentences that resembles those in the books, which will help the program inform and humanise the company's products. In a research paper, published on ArXiv and discovered by Quartz, the team describe some of the methods they have used to try and make the bot more conversational.