{"id":6897,"date":"2018-07-22T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T09:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T10:03:18","slug":"writing-with-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6897","title":{"rendered":"Writing with the\u00a0machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/notes\/writing-with-the-machine\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rnn-example-extra.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&#8220;\u2026it&#8217;s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/\">Robin Sloan<\/a> of Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-hour Bookstore fame, has been talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/notes\/writing-with-the-machine\/\">Writing with the\u00a0machine<\/a>. He was inspired by presentations like Adrej Karpathy&#8217;s blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/karpathy.github.io\/2015\/05\/21\/rnn-effectiveness\/\">The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks<\/a> and Bowman et al&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1511.06349\">Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space<\/a> to try developing a neural net that could generate text. He used as a training corpus a collection of early science-fiction from the Internet Archive and created different text generation tools like the short video of that which you can see above and hear <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/232545219\">explained in this Eyeo video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the points he emphasizes is that he didn&#8217;t do this just for the fun of seeing strange phrases generated, but wants to use it seriously as a writing aide. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help wondering if this could be used philosophically. Could we generate philosophical or ethical phrases in response to questions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026it&#8217;s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.&#8221; Robin Sloan of Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-hour Bookstore fame, has been talking about Writing with the\u00a0machine. He was inspired by presentations like Adrej Karpathy&#8217;s blog post on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks and Bowman et al&#8217;s Generating Sentences from a Continuous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing with the\u00a0machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-streaming-media","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}