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Google AI pens dark poems after being force-fed 11k books

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How do humans make an artificial intelligence system better at conversations? One method-in-testing is a project in which a Google AI was force-fed 2,865 romance books, about 1,500 fantasy books, and more. The work was done by researchers with Google Brain, and involved feeding a total of 11,000 unpublished books to the neural network, then testing whether it could take a couple sentences from the book and create its own corresponding phrases. The results sound like cryptic, dark poems. The AI's task wasn't terribly simple - the two sentences were the start and end of a progression the neural network had to make -- a sort of machine-generated poem that had to form a sensible transition between the two sentences.