I fed a neural net 270,000 words of Trump campaign speeches for the @NewYorker and nobody can ever make me do it again.
Methods: Individual sentences (and sometimes groups of sentences) are exactly as the neural net output them. I did select the most interesting sentences, though, and arrange them in an order that (if not exactly making sense) at least flowed better.
Neural nets used:
Writes text letter-by-letter: github.com/karpathy/char-…
Writes text word-by-word: github.com/larspars/word-…
The outputs with nonsense words were mostly from the letter-by-letter neural net.
Writes text letter-by-letter: github.com/karpathy/char-…
Writes text word-by-word: github.com/larspars/word-…
The outputs with nonsense words were mostly from the letter-by-letter neural net.
What the creativity level means: This is the "temperature" setting. At the lowest temperature the neural net always writes the most likely next word/letter, and everything becomes "the the the". At the highest temperature, it chooses less probable words/letters for more weirdness
Training time: like 2 solid days apiece on AWS's Deep Learning AMI.
Sampling time: waaay too long reading Trumplike speech. I have suppressed the memories and it's probably better that way.
Filming time: I dunno; wasn't there, but John Di Domenico absolutely KILLS it
Sampling time: waaay too long reading Trumplike speech. I have suppressed the memories and it's probably better that way.
Filming time: I dunno; wasn't there, but John Di Domenico absolutely KILLS it
That's in contrast to this neural net (not mine) which trained for over a month on 82 million Amazon reviews.
Via @Johnnyd23 ‘s amazing performance you can see how well the neural net mimics surface characteristics like word choice and rhythm
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