Earlier this month
[http://aiweirdness.com/post/167049313837/a-neural-network-tries-writing-the-first-sentence]
, I tried training an algorithm called a neural network to generate the first
line of a novel.
It didn’t go so well. A neural network learns by example, looking at a database
of things (paint color names
[http://aiweirdness.com/
![The first line of a novel, by an improved neural network](/content/images/size/w795/image/fetch/w_256-c_limit-f_auto-q_auto:good-fl_progressive:steep/https-3A-2F-2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2Fa2c7c912-2468-4adf-b37c-57d1339a2153_489x489.png)