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Dec 24, 2017

A deep neural network wrote us a Christmas carol—and it’s hilariously bad

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Christmas carol songwriters should be relieved to hear that they can keep their jobs for a little while longer. It turns out that artificial intelligence hasn’t quite mastered the art of their job.

In a Dec. 21 entry on her personal AI blog, Janelle Shane, a research scientist in industry and machine-learning hobbyist in her spare time, chronicles her journey of trying to teach a neural network to generate Christmas lyrics.

I trained a neural network to write Christmas carols and it got confused. In retrospect I should have seen this coming. http://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-ge…al-network pic.twitter.com/XueoR4V5cC

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