Who said that creativity is the exclusive prerogative of a person? Nowadays, artificial intelligence is already able to draw abstract paintings, sculpt no less abstract sculptures, and even compose simple electronic music. The only thing left is to teach the car to write in an interesting and competent manner. The employees of the American technology corporation “Google” decided to fill this gap.
Experts intend to make the robot compose a full-fledged novel, and not just any, but a real work about love, designed to move romantics around the globe.
This will be done by a modern artificial neural network, developed by the company's craftsmen. A mathematical model that mimics the human brain will get acquainted with several thousand famous romance novels in order to master all the necessary nuances of the English language and explore the popular clichés of the genre. This reading should take artificial intelligence only a week.
One novel among many
Obviously, the machine will not be able to compose something truly extraordinary. Nevertheless, she, figuratively speaking, will put together her own story from many strangers. Almost like budding writers who take their debut inspiration from other writers. In addition, an artificial neural network connected to the Internet will take data from the World Wide Web, including social networks. Let's say some user tweeted: “Today my wife and I went to play golf”. Artificial intelligence may well take advantage of this information and twist the plot around the meeting of a couple on the golf course. In a word, the robot is unlikely to compose pure fantasy, but he can imagine events that could well have happened to the lovers.
The developer of the program, Andrew Dye, who led the project, reports that the speed of writing a novel by an artificial neural network will depend on the computational abilities of the computer to which it is connected. It won't happen overnight - it can take a machine several weeks or even months to do such a difficult job and one day finish a book.
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When the work is ready, the authors of the project will read and evaluate it. But the real test for the robot will be the publication of a novel under a pseudonym that the artificial intelligence will choose for itself. The book will appear in a limited edition on the shelves of American stores, while nowhere, of course, it will be indicated that the author of the work is a robot. If the novel becomes popular among readers, literary critics will certainly be interested in it, who, not knowing the truth, will evaluate the text as a result of the creativity of a living person.
It's worth noting that artificial intelligence has written before. So, three years ago, a Japanese programmer Darius Kazimi developed a program that used a kind of composing ability to write a story and became the author of a work called "Teenagers Walk Around the House". The machine created a virtual plot of land with a mansion, lush vegetation and a body of water, placing two virtual young friends in such an environment.
In this story, the characters walk around the site and conduct dialogues, discussing life, studies, their leisure time and the nature around them. The work took part in a major literary competition and even reached the semifinals, beating one thousand four hundred and fifty real writers.