Recurrent neural network for generating stories about images
November 6, 2015 12:21 PM   Subscribe

 
This is completely mind breaking. I propose the term 'hilarious valley' for computers that can almost but not quite do human things. See also the drunk darpa robots.
posted by poe at 12:43 PM on November 6, 2015 [5 favorites]


hilarious valley
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 1:00 PM on November 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


Lets get Real!Swift to cover Robo!Swift so we can have the Gibsonesque future we where promised and are doomed to get.
posted by The Whelk at 1:05 PM on November 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


I have worked with story-telling algorithms for case-based-reasoning before, this page provides an excellent overview of basic approaches (I used a modified version of TALESPIN - which was used to recreate Aesop's fables). TALESPIN, from 1977, seems to be, uh... significantly better at telling stories than neural-storyteller (you'd have to couple it with a random generator of story state to begin the stories though. hmmm.... automated twitter bot thoughts...).
posted by combinatorial explosion at 1:05 PM on November 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


Just from a quick skim, wouldn't something like TALESPIN require a lot more explicit training and rule specification, vs. just pointing it at a few corpuses and letting it rip?
posted by en forme de poire at 1:17 PM on November 6, 2015


the mean of skip-thought vectors across Taylor Swift lyrics

What a weird future. Sad that my first thought was "I wonder how this will be used in phishing"
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 1:37 PM on November 6, 2015 [2 favorites]


Has anyone figured out how to set this up on their machines? I'm stuck at the part that says, "Next, you need to obtain the pre-trained skip-thoughts encoder," because it is not so clear what part of the encoder to wget.
posted by johngoren at 7:18 PM on November 6, 2015


I'm just trying to get win64 theano working.

Spoiler: It is difficult.
posted by PMdixon at 8:55 PM on November 6, 2015


I confess i don't even understand what is meant by the "lasagna" in the generator.py's "import lasagna." Maybe we could write a nice installation script
posted by johngoren at 10:56 PM on November 6, 2015


The Great Automatic Grammatizator is alive!
posted by divabat at 4:41 AM on November 7, 2015


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