{"id":116798,"date":"2020-12-08T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ai-attempts-to-create-dungeons-dragons-monsters-and-the-results-are-hilarious"},"modified":"2020-12-08T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:24:28","slug":"ai-attempts-to-create-dungeons-dragons-monsters-and-the-results-are-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ai-attempts-to-create-dungeons-dragons-monsters-and-the-results-are-hilarious","title":{"rendered":"AI Attempts To Create Dungeons &amp; Dragons Monsters, And The Results Are Hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-attempts-to-create-dungeons-dragons-monsters-and-the-results-are-hilarious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least humans can still say they are better at something\u2026 for now. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What happens if you let a neural network loose on inventing names for monsters in Dungeons and Dragons? Well, it turns out it comes up with some rather ridiculous suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Research scientist Janelle Shane from Boulder, Colorado previously used a <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/faq\">recurrent neural network<\/a> to come up with some odd <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/159363915392\/new-dd-magic-spells-designed-by-neural-network\">spell names<\/a> for D&amp;D, but this time around she turned her powers of hilarity towards creating new names for monsters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that in addition to spellbooks, Dungeons and Dragons also has monster manuals \u2013 books full of the names and descriptions of creatures that adventurers can encounter,\u201d she wrote on her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/172170729017\/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by\">AI Weirdness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least humans can still say they are better at something\u2026 for now. \ud83d\ude03 What happens if you let a neural network loose on inventing names for monsters in Dungeons and Dragons? Well, it turns out it comes up with some rather ridiculous suggestions. Research scientist Janelle Shane from Boulder, Colorado previously used a recurrent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}