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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/waerzX-tYkw/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines
For Slashdot's 20th anniversary, "What could be geekier than celebrating with the help of an open-source neural network?" Neural network hobbyist Janelle Shane has already used machine learning to generate names for paint colors, guinea pigs, heavy metal bands, and even craft beers, she explains on her blog. "Slashdot sent me a list of all the headlines they've ever run, over 162,000 in all, and asked me to train a neural network to try to generate more." Could she distill 20 years of news -- all of humanity's greatest technological advancements -- down to a few quintessential words? She trained it separately on the first decade of Slashdot headlines -- 1997 through 2007 -- as well as the second decade from 2008 to the present, and then re-ran the entire experiment using the whole collection of every headline from the last 20 years. Among the remarkable machine-generated headlines?Microsoft To Develop Programming LawMore Pong Users for Kernel ProjectNew Company Revises Super-Things For ProblemsSteve Jobs To Be GoodBut that was just the beginning...Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/waerzX-tYkw/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
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