According to a report in BuzzFeed News, Google is training a new Al to understand human conversation and respond in a suitably human fashion by feeding it a diet of trashy romance. BuzzFeed News quotes Google software engineer Andrew Dai as saying: "In the Google app, the responses are very factual. Hopefully with this work, and future work, it can be more conversational, or can have a more varied tone, or style, or register." Apparently romantic novels are good for this because they're, well, formulaic. Although they employ an adult lexicon, unlike children's books, they follow a simple repetitive structure, making learning easier for the AI.