{"id":7008,"date":"2019-01-23T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2019-01-23T03:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T03:07:35","slug":"writing-with-the-machine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7008","title":{"rendered":"Writing with the\u00a0machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2019\/01\/rnn-example-1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;\u2026it&#8217;s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robin Sloan, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/books\/penumbra\/\">Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-Hour Bookstore<\/a>, has been doing some interesting work with recursive neural nets in order to generate text. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/notes\/writing-with-the-machine\/\">Writing with the\u00a0machine<\/a>.\u00a0He trained a machine on science fiction and then hooked it into a text editor so it can complete sentences. The New York Times has a nice story on Sloan&#8217;s experiments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/18\/technology\/ai-is-beginning-to-assist-novelists.html\">Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what it would be like if you trained it on your own writing. Would it help you be yourself or discourage you from rereading your prose?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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, author of Mr. Penumbra&#8217;s 24-Hour Bookstore, has been doing some interesting work with recursive neural nets in order to generate text. See\u00a0Writing with the\u00a0machine.\u00a0He trained a machine on science fiction and then hooked it into a text editor so it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7008\" 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":[74,25,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-hypertext-fiction","category-literature","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008","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=7008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7010,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7008\/revisions\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}