An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
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Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#2do people actually fall for this? It's so clearly just writers passing it off as an AI because ML is the buzzword of the month that gets funding and attention.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#3Today I learned that Markov chain generation = "AI."
Shame on Ars staff for conflating this parlor trick as "artificial intelligence," and failing to explain how this rather simple process works.
For fucks sake, they find the raw screenplay of a movie like Knight Rider, regex out the crap, download a Markov chain generator off of github, and train their model on the text. And of course by "training", I mean they run a single command to process the text document, and wait. Why this is described as a "...long short-term-memory recursive machine-learning algorithm" probably has to do with the fact that Ars has their hand in promoting these short films.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#4Ok, so it's not very smart AI; emacs's eliza might do as good a job.
But setting aside the article's lack of technical rigor, and its scientism, the film itself is interesting. I was impressed by how the actors could convey feeling, even with a randomly generated script. I imagine that, in acting school, actors have to do this sort of thing as an exercise: learn how to convey feeling using random words or grunts (is this done?).
For me, it's interesting that there's another side to human communication that has nothing to do with verbal meaning. It sounds hard to do THAT using software.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#5do people actually fall for this? It's so clearly just writers passing it off as an AI because ML is the buzzword of the month that gets funding and attention.
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Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#6Wow, this is probably the weirdest thing I have seen on the Internet so far.
But if we end up with androids dreaming of electric sheep, this is where it started.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#7Today I learned that Markov chain generation = "AI." Shame on Ars staff for conflating this parlor trick as "artificial intelligence," and failing to explain how this rather simple process works. For fucks sake, they find the raw screenplay of a movie like Knight Rider, regex out the crap, download a Markov chain generator off of github, and train their model on the text. And of course by "training", I mean they run…
They describe it like that because it's a long short-term memory recurrent neural network, which is a machine learning algorithm.
How exactly were you able to infer that they were lying and were instead using a Markov chain from a few snippets of dialogue?
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#8Today I learned that Markov chain generation = "AI." Shame on Ars staff for conflating this parlor trick as "artificial intelligence," and failing to explain how this rather simple process works. For fucks sake, they find the raw screenplay of a movie like Knight Rider, regex out the crap, download a Markov chain generator off of github, and train their model on the text. And of course by "training", I mean they run…
Probably because they trained an LSTM model to learn conditional probabilities between words and then sampled using markov methods to actually generate the sequences.
It's actually pretty standard and not particularly innovative, technically, in that you can google already existing tutorials on exactly how to do that (even in Keras - forget lower level stuff).
At any rate, this doesn't work well, typically. I'm sure they generated a bunch of sample sequences and cherry picked ones that made even a little sense for inclusion in their script.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#9do people actually fall for this? It's so clearly just writers passing it off as an AI because ML is the buzzword of the month that gets funding and attention.
The overall story was written by humans. The just-barely-not-quite-nonsense that the actors speak when they get "turned on" are the lines the algorithm wrote.
If you view the credits, it shows all the corpuses the various bot-generated lines were trained on. Hasselhoff's lines were trained on a whole bunch of baywatch episodes.
Re: An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film
#10Today I learned that Markov chain generation = "AI." Shame on Ars staff for conflating this parlor trick as "artificial intelligence," and failing to explain how this rather simple process works. For fucks sake, they find the raw screenplay of a movie like Knight Rider, regex out the crap, download a Markov chain generator off of github, and train their model on the text. And of course by "training", I mean they run…