For the past few months, Google has been feeding an AI engine similar text from Unconditional Love, Ignited, Fatal Desire and Jacked Up, In this way, I hope to strengthen the personality and communication skills of this technology.
It worked. The Google research team recently had an artificial intelligence engine write sentences that mimicked these. With that success behind them, they are planning even more ambitious plans to use ai’s conversational style to make Google products more human, including its staid Google apps.
“Google Apps responded with a straight face.” “The hope is that with this project and others in the future, it will be able to be more talkative, or show more intonation or style,” said Andrew Dai, a Google software engineer who led the project.
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Outside of the Google app, the technology can also be used for the “smart reply” feature in Google Inbox. Smart Reply uses Google’s AI engine to generate three response suggestions, which allows users to read the text of an email and then provide a more colloquial response. The more advanced ai technology, the better the effect of intelligent response. Google says 10 percent of responses to its Inbox mobile app use smart replies.
Romance novels are ideal training materials for AI because they essentially use the same plot and tell similar stories in different languages. “The girl fell in love with the boy, and the boy fell in love with another girl. Love tragedies are like that.” Andrew Day said. By reading thousands of similar novels, AI can determine which sentences express similar meanings, and thus better understand the subtle changes in language. Romance novels work better than children’s books because they provide more language samples for ai to learn.
It’s not easy for an AI engine to learn a novel. An artificial intelligence engine, also known as a neural network, is a computer program that learns on its own. But that doesn’t mean it was born with intelligence. A neural network doesn’t know anything at first, so feeding it words from a book is like reading a novel to a child in the hope that it will learn something from it. That’s why it relies on massive amounts of data (some 2,865 romance novels) to build its so-called intelligence.
After digesting the romances, Google’s AI engine uses what it has learned to make sentences and compares the new sentences with the original. This process will be repeated over and over again, leading to self-improvement and better and better sentences.
So can Google’s AI engine write its own romance novel?
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“In theory, yes.” “Said Andrew Day, who declined to provide the sample contents.
Given all the recent events in ai robotics, notably Microsoft’s foul-mouthed Tay, Google is sure to keep a tight rein on the public version of this research. “It’s sexy and imaginative.” “We worked directly with the product team to minimize the risk of it going off course,” he said.
So, will anyone fall in love with this AI engine? “Eventually that could happen.” “There is an ancient Greek legend about a man who made a beautiful sculpture of a woman, more beautiful than any other woman in the world, and he fell in love with it,” Said Andrew Day. If you can love sculpture, why can’t you love a neural network trained in romance novels?”