I trained an A.I. to Ask Metafilter...

August 3, 2017 5:00 PM

I trained an A.I. to Ask Metafilter...
Last time, I trained an LSTM neural network to generate British placenames. This time, I trained one on Ask Metafilter questions to see if the questions it generated might tell us anything about humanity. (Spoilers: yes, of course it did).

I have also generated MeFi usernames from the same MeFi infodump! They are hidden in the github repo linked on the Medium post.

Role: Lead typist

posted by danhon (12 comments total)

This project was posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome on August 4, 2017: Help me get the mysterious library to my sister

Yessss
posted by cortex at 5:00 PM on August 3, 2017

Some of these are really really good
posted by aubilenon at 5:29 PM on August 3, 2017

Somewhere in an AI's dream, mathomes just transferred ownership of Metafilter to Cortark
posted by not_the_water at 6:25 PM on August 3, 2017 [2 favorites]

This is *the best*. I especially want to click on and read about "Help me find a baby version of my dishwasher".
posted by Secretariat at 10:01 PM on August 3, 2017 [2 favorites]

I feel like the denizens of AskMe should set to answering these questions, post haste.
posted by adamrice at 6:32 AM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

"I feel like the denizens of AskMe should set to answering these questions, post haste."

omg I would love that.
posted by danhon at 1:46 PM on August 4, 2017

Well, these are just the titles! I think it would be fun to write the questions.
posted by Secretariat at 5:56 PM on August 4, 2017

I, too, would like dental karaoke insurance.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 11:20 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Has anyone done one of these autogeneration things using something like Word2Vec vectors instead of just words? i.e. Rather than just loading in a corpus of words that get used in a particular domain, learning which kinds of words within the full body of a language tend to get used there?
posted by little onion at 11:33 AM on August 5, 2017

But really, now I must write the poem in question: Where can I find a drinking poem about a river?
posted by perrouno at 4:22 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

I would like to see neural nets set completely loose on mefi for a day. With neural net moderation too, naturally.
posted by mattamatic at 9:38 AM on August 7, 2017

With neural net moderation too, naturally.
posted by mattamatic

Epony... well you know.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:23 AM on August 14, 2017