Even if you're not actively following recent trends in AI and machine learning, you may have come across articles by a researcher who experiments with training neural nets to generate interesting things such as: Add creamed meat and another deep mixture. What's being used is something called a Recurrent Neural Net to generate text in a specific style. It's trained with input data which it analyzes to recognizes patterns in the text, constructing a model of that data. It can then generate new text following the same patterns, sometimes with rather curious and amusing results. A commonly referred-to article on this topic is by Andrej Karpathy titled The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks.