Cyborg Writer
AI
text generation demo
SHOW HN2017
71points
27comments
#625of 2,242 in 2017
Top 28%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, entertaining text generation output
From 3 comments
Pretty hilarious. I've found Tupac to work the best, e.g. (my starting text in quotes): ``` "I was reading Hacker News when" he gladed out Somebody excuse I went down today I…
westoncb on HNFun with Shakespeare: It seemed, somehow mock'd; Unbashed as it was my father. My lady shall have him, perchance and reasons will abide it. Upon his unspoken thing, the devil…
nsomaru on HNThis is actually pretty neat, although requires more digging
stmw on HN
Objections
Output is no better than a Markov chain and contains garbled words
From 4 comments
Eh, it's scarcely better than a Markov chain. I was hoping for something a little more useful, like the ability to scroll through many similar words or concepts.
c3534l on HNI was expecting it to at least generate valid words, but that doesn't seem to be the case...
giosch on HNSafari on latest MacOS gives me unintelligible words pretty often. My input: "I went to the grocery store to pick up some milk for" Output on wikipedia setting: "I went to the…
ballenf on HNNo offence, but with a megabyte of text per speaker I feel I could do better with word n-gram Markov models (even bigrams), and random path choice. I think deep learning is great…
projectant on HN
Browser crashes or hangs when hitting Tab
From 3 comments
Hitting tab crashes Chrome for me.
_grep_ on HNNot OP, same issue here. Whole browser just locks up, pretty impressive. Windows 7, Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
snerbles on HNMobile Safari just sits there...
ttul on HN
Requests
Better word suggestions or scrollable similar words
From 1 comment
Eh, it's scarcely better than a Markov chain. I was hoping for something a little more useful, like the ability to scroll through many similar words or concepts.
c3534l on HN
Questions
Why does the output contain spelling mistakes?
From 1 comment
Is there a technical reason why it generates text with lot of spelling mistakes? Ayn Rand seems very sloppy with her spelling!
sterex on HN
Alternatives named
Markov chains
From 2 comments
No offence, but with a megabyte of text per speaker I feel I could do better with word n-gram Markov models (even bigrams), and random path choice. I think deep learning is great…
projectant on HNI also agree that it's hard to see the benefit of using deep learning (which implies gigantic amounts of data and processing power, therefore costs) over traditional models like…
YeGoblynQueenne on HN
keras-js character-level LSTM demo
From 1 comment
Ha very nice! I made a vary similar (but much rougher around the edges) project for fun a few months ago using a smaller french corpus of press releases from La Quadrature du Net…
jaster on HN