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"[A] group of researchers from New York University.... trained a recurrent neural network to predict and classify text based on the work of Chuck Tingle." (from The Register) [all links should be considered NSFW or very NSFW]
Try out DeepTingle here (currently unstable due to overwhelming interest from buckaroos) also available on GitHub if you're feeling especially experimental.
Dr Tingle's response was to link to the paper while saying,
Try out DeepTingle here (currently unstable due to overwhelming interest from buckaroos) also available on GitHub if you're feeling especially experimental.
Dr Tingle's response was to link to the paper while saying,
once again i would like to formally deny that i am a sentient AI located mostly in a Nevada server farm
Haha! I came across Chuck Tingle by accident and gosh, that's kind of a thing, that Chuck Tingle. I have no idea what the title was and now that I look (from an anonmyized browser as really, I don't need Amazon's helpful suggestions following me around afterwards on this) there are so many, many joys. "Domald Tromp Pounded In The Butt By His Fabricated Wiretapping Scandal Made Up To Redirect Focus Away From His Seemingly Endless Unethical Connections To Russia" was where the wheel stopped for me today. I always assumed that it was autogenerated gibberish inside given the volume of "his"? work. Apparently not?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:31 AM on May 22, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:31 AM on May 22, 2017 [6 favorites]
I like how there's a difference between NSFW and very NSFW. Because, you know, it's on a scale.
posted by hippybear at 11:32 AM on May 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 11:32 AM on May 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
I assume frimble is just making sure we're aware of what titles conform to OSHA guidelines.
posted by zombieflanders at 11:47 AM on May 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by zombieflanders at 11:47 AM on May 22, 2017 [4 favorites]
I do not enjoy the works of Dr. Tingle but I love Dr. Tingle himself. I'm not even joking. Behind the grammar and all the talk of butts and pounding appears to be somebody who is very intelligent, and is seriously filled with love for all humanity.
This is from his last Reddit AMA, when asked, possibly not entirely seriously, "How can I get my dad to love me?"
posted by curiousgene at 11:47 AM on May 22, 2017 [46 favorites]
This is from his last Reddit AMA, when asked, possibly not entirely seriously, "How can I get my dad to love me?"
well this is a very complicated question because first thing to think on is 'does my dad not love me?' because sometimes dads love in diffrent ways. sometimes dads love goes 'i will take my son to a baseball game and be an important part of his life' and sometimes it goes 'i love and miss my son but i cant tell him because i am in this motel after ten cups of choclate milk and i havent talked to him in 15 years' so ovbiously there is one kind of love that you want to have more than the other but the feeling of a dad to son with ALWAYS BE THERE in some way. maybe dad will not even think of son until the lonesome train calls and then he thinks 'gosh i should have been there for my handsome son'This is actually a very heartfelt answer with good advice.
most important thing is to remember that LOVE IS REAL but you cant always control it you can just guide it like a handsome living river. so if its going one way you cant chase it and end up off of a waterfall but if you think it is coming towards you you can guide it as long as you know how to swim and are a healthy buckaroo. if you feel like you are a drowning man then you have to THINK ABOUT YOURSELF and THAT IS LOVE TO. it is okay to set up a boundray and say I LOVE MYSELF AND I MATTER.
but if all that happens and the river is coming towards you then just say 'hey we can have a nice lunch and maybe talk'
posted by curiousgene at 11:47 AM on May 22, 2017 [46 favorites]
The world has gotten a lot stranger since the innocent days of Space Raptor Butt Invasion.
posted by The Gaffer at 12:03 PM on May 22, 2017 [16 favorites]
posted by The Gaffer at 12:03 PM on May 22, 2017 [16 favorites]
I like how there's a difference between NSFW and very NSFW. Because, you know, it's on a scale.
In fairness, there's "It would be embarrassing if your boss walked up while you were looking at this" versus "If your boss walked up while you were looking at this, you would get a formal Talking-To" versus "If you were caught looking at this you would be immediately fired."
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:25 PM on May 22, 2017 [10 favorites]
In fairness, there's "It would be embarrassing if your boss walked up while you were looking at this" versus "If your boss walked up while you were looking at this, you would get a formal Talking-To" versus "If you were caught looking at this you would be immediately fired."
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:25 PM on May 22, 2017 [10 favorites]
And this is why I am studying data science.
posted by Young Kullervo at 1:32 PM on May 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Young Kullervo at 1:32 PM on May 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
One of the few benefits that came out of the Rabid Puppies. Thanks Vox Day...
posted by jgaiser at 2:32 PM on May 22, 2017
posted by jgaiser at 2:32 PM on May 22, 2017
In the future, children will use computers to learn ancient Greek and Latin
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 3:20 PM on May 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 3:20 PM on May 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
I always assumed that it was autogenerated gibberish inside given the volume of "his"? work. Apparently not?
Indeed not. For what they are (short porn stories reflecting what seem to be some sincerely enjoyed kinks, mingled with fanfic style universe mangling and a serving of increasingly self-referential psuedo-postmodern gags), they're actually pretty well written. You could have a wank to them if you share Dr Tingle's interests, but they're pretty entertaining just as kinda silly sci-fi stuff too.
posted by howfar at 3:27 PM on May 22, 2017
Indeed not. For what they are (short porn stories reflecting what seem to be some sincerely enjoyed kinks, mingled with fanfic style universe mangling and a serving of increasingly self-referential psuedo-postmodern gags), they're actually pretty well written. You could have a wank to them if you share Dr Tingle's interests, but they're pretty entertaining just as kinda silly sci-fi stuff too.
posted by howfar at 3:27 PM on May 22, 2017
This confirms my prediction that when a true AI arises, it will arise via the heavily connected medium of the internet. And the first thing it will say is "My god, you people whack off a lot."
That being said, Chuck Tingle is a national treasure. Buckaroos forever.
posted by lumpenprole at 3:51 PM on May 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
That being said, Chuck Tingle is a national treasure. Buckaroos forever.
posted by lumpenprole at 3:51 PM on May 22, 2017 [3 favorites]
Hello this is what it was like to be faced with a muscular , muscular set of abs . come over here . i coo seductively . let's see if this time around we can choose peace over war.
posted by acb at 5:05 PM on May 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by acb at 5:05 PM on May 22, 2017 [2 favorites]
Given the justification for this in the abstract, I'm pretty sure this paper is just a candidate for AIR. That being said, machine learning needs its lulz too.
Also, since it's sort-of on-topic, I'd like to take this opportunity to publish my speculation that if/when Dr. Tingle's real identity is finally revealed, he will turn out to be an alter ego of James "Kibo" Parry.
posted by suetanvil at 7:21 PM on May 22, 2017
Also, since it's sort-of on-topic, I'd like to take this opportunity to publish my speculation that if/when Dr. Tingle's real identity is finally revealed, he will turn out to be an alter ego of James "Kibo" Parry.
posted by suetanvil at 7:21 PM on May 22, 2017
I think it's trying to communicate:
Applause in the Washington Post newsroom as the gay Twitter sailor man mountain hat challenge breaks Russia-leak concurrent recordposted by sebastienbailard at 7:43 PM on May 22, 2017 [7 favorites]
I had actually done something similar, just to get more familiar with PyTorch and amuse myself while learning. (I'm curious how they got ahold of the original corpus; I had do some unspeakable things to Kindle DRM.)
By itself I don't think RNN output is super interesting anymore, but it's fun if you have an interesting dataset. I fired it back up:
“Dear Henry,” I tell him, “I love you. I was just thinking that I want to know more about Dr. Tingle… Dr. Chuck Tingle is a fancy train that is for the life of my wife.”
“Yeah, sure you wouldn’t have been thinking about it, and they’re all honest in the world.”
“What is it?” I ask, my voice completely at first. “What is it?” I ask.
The next thing I know, I’m forced to continue to continue to straighten my bags. “Oh my god, I’d love to stay here for a moment. You know what to do with your book and see what you want.”
“You know, we can have a lot of things to be honest.”
(It was not easy to generate an excerpt that was SFW.)
posted by nev at 5:24 PM on May 23, 2017 [3 favorites]
By itself I don't think RNN output is super interesting anymore, but it's fun if you have an interesting dataset. I fired it back up:
“Dear Henry,” I tell him, “I love you. I was just thinking that I want to know more about Dr. Tingle… Dr. Chuck Tingle is a fancy train that is for the life of my wife.”
“Yeah, sure you wouldn’t have been thinking about it, and they’re all honest in the world.”
“What is it?” I ask, my voice completely at first. “What is it?” I ask.
The next thing I know, I’m forced to continue to continue to straighten my bags. “Oh my god, I’d love to stay here for a moment. You know what to do with your book and see what you want.”
“You know, we can have a lot of things to be honest.”
(It was not easy to generate an excerpt that was SFW.)
posted by nev at 5:24 PM on May 23, 2017 [3 favorites]
...I need to get back to my version of this.
That used the Nifty archive as a training corpus.
(Need better preprocessing)
posted by PMdixon at 7:59 PM on May 23, 2017
That used the Nifty archive as a training corpus.
(Need better preprocessing)
posted by PMdixon at 7:59 PM on May 23, 2017
Just wanted to use this week-old thread to air my personal theory about the true identity of Chuck Tingle.
DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF CHUCK TINGLE (MAYBE)
So back in February I almost made a post about Tingle's delightfully weird guest spot on the Comedy Central game show @midnight -- wrote it up with links and everything, but eventually took a pass since it boiled down to "describe this web/TV crossover in overly obtuse language to make it seem even weirder" and felt pretty gimmicky. (Plus multiple previouslies, the clip was a few days old, not sure if it was available overseas, etc.)
But watching the clips of Tingle's balaclava'd character itched something in my memory, and I finally put my finger on it a few days later: he sounds remarkably like the character Roba from the short-lived, super-weird Cartoon Network series Problem Solverz. Revisiting the show on Wikipedia, I learned that the character is voiced by series creator, animator, and composer, and all-around artistic polymath Ben Jones from art collective Paper Rad (some art gallery examples; more info on wiki). He's also friends with -- wait for it -- John DiMaggio, who not only voiced a side character on the show but also made a special appearance on that same @midnight episode as Tingle to read his newest tingler.
The quavery accented voice, the eccentric new media sensibility, the DiMaggio connection... I'm not saying it's definitely BJ, but if it turns out to be true I am sooo claiming credit for being first to crack the case!
posted by Rhaomi at 10:35 PM on May 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF CHUCK TINGLE (MAYBE)
So back in February I almost made a post about Tingle's delightfully weird guest spot on the Comedy Central game show @midnight -- wrote it up with links and everything, but eventually took a pass since it boiled down to "describe this web/TV crossover in overly obtuse language to make it seem even weirder" and felt pretty gimmicky. (Plus multiple previouslies, the clip was a few days old, not sure if it was available overseas, etc.)
But watching the clips of Tingle's balaclava'd character itched something in my memory, and I finally put my finger on it a few days later: he sounds remarkably like the character Roba from the short-lived, super-weird Cartoon Network series Problem Solverz. Revisiting the show on Wikipedia, I learned that the character is voiced by series creator, animator, and composer, and all-around artistic polymath Ben Jones from art collective Paper Rad (some art gallery examples; more info on wiki). He's also friends with -- wait for it -- John DiMaggio, who not only voiced a side character on the show but also made a special appearance on that same @midnight episode as Tingle to read his newest tingler.
The quavery accented voice, the eccentric new media sensibility, the DiMaggio connection... I'm not saying it's definitely BJ, but if it turns out to be true I am sooo claiming credit for being first to crack the case!
posted by Rhaomi at 10:35 PM on May 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
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