Inspired by erotic fiction, Google’s AI bot is producing some creepy poetry

GOOGLE has been feeding its AI robot with romantic novels in a bid to improve its conversation skills. And the results are a little awkward.

The Google AI bot has been consuming plenty of romantic texts as of late.

IF YOU want to understand how humans communicate, just read some erotic fiction.

At least that’s the thinking of Google engineers who have been trying to improve the personality and conversational skills of the company’s AI bot through the language of lust.

In recent months developers at the company have been feeding its artificially intelligent computer with the texts of nearly 3000 steamy romance novels with titles such as Unconditional Love, Jacked Up and Fatal Desire.

The computer gobbles up the carnal texts in a quest to improve its understanding of the nuances of our language, according to Google.

“Her blouse sprang apart, he was assaulted by the sight of lots of pale creamy flesh bursting out of a hot pink bra, the cleavage high and perky.”

The bot has consumed countless passages like the one above in a bid to emulate Casanova. It sounds like cruel and unusual punishment, but there is method to the madness.

As Google software engineer Andrew Dai explained to Buzzfeed, romance novels make for a good learning tool for the algorithm because the stories are often so similar.

“Girl falls in love with boy, boy falls in love with a different girl. Romance tragedy,” Dai explained.

Basically, the formulaic nature of the genre means the bot can analyse variations in the language within what is often a familiar narrative.

One of the great challengers for AI developers is to create a bot with colloquial skills that can adapt to, and mimic, the different ways humans converse.

Naturally, researchers have been keen to see how the technique has paid off. To do so they gave the AI bot two sentences, a starting sentence and a finishing sentence. The machine was tasked with getting from the first to the last in a sensical order with each sentence relating to the previous one.

Google recently presented a paper about the experiment which contains examples of what the bot came up with.

While the method has shown promise in improving the robot’s language skills, the influence of the romantic novels has inspired what researchers have described as some “rather dramatic” writings.

Here are some of the best examples of what the internet is calling the strange postmodern poetry of Google’s AI bot.

it made me want to cry.

no one had seen him since.

it made me feel uneasy.

no one had seen him.

the thought made me smile.

the pain was unbearable.

the crowd was silent.

the man called out.

the old man said.

the man asked.

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he was silent for a long moment.

he was silent for a moment.

it was quiet for a moment.

it was dark and cold.

there was a pause.

it was my turn.

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there is no one else in the world.

there is no one else in sight.

they were the only ones who mattered.

they were the only ones left.

he had to be with me.

she had to be with him.

i had to do this.

i wanted to kill him.

i started to cry.

i turned to him.