Is there a possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) learning to love? Some people are fascinated and others are terrified with the thought. Some hope Google's AI won't become another Tay. A tech company was in the works to galvanize those curiosities and fears; they are getting closer to making a comic book plot a fact of life.
Google introduced AI to lusty romance novels; titles like Unconditional Love, Ignited, Fatal Desire, and Jacked Up. The idea of exposing their app's AI to the texts was to adjust its stiff responses to be more conversational and naturalistic, which it needed. The concept of adding romance book titles to the AI's vocabulary is to elevate the Google app's personality and understanding. The Google app would transform from just understanding basic questions to understanding sentiment, and the purpose is to make it easier for app users.
Understanding how to process and appropriately respond to human language is already difficult for humans, it is a huge challenge within AI research. The engineers are feeding novels to an AI engine, a computer program which can learn on its own. The AI engine starts off without any knowledge base, therefore the need to feed it text from a book and lots of text from many books.
There is fascination, seduction, and heartbreaking in the books AI was "reading". Over 2,865 romance novels were used to expand AI's vocabulary and creative abilities, giving AI a variety of expressions it can relay to app users and it improved its writing without any engineer's help. Romance novels make great training material for AI due to the fact the novels use the same plot to tell similar stories with different words. These novels offer AI a broad range of linguistic examples from which to draw.
Is it beyond belief that AI could learn to love? Or, could someone fall in love with an intuitive AI system? Would either situation be a dream or a nightmare?
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