{"id":27852,"date":"2016-07-14T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-neural-network-tried-to-write-a-9th-harry-potter-book-and-the-results-are-hilarious"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:06:47","slug":"a-neural-network-tried-to-write-a-9th-harry-potter-book-and-the-results-are-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-neural-network-tried-to-write-a-9th-harry-potter-book-and-the-results-are-hilarious","title":{"rendered":"A neural network tried to write a 9th Harry Potter book, and the results are hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-neural-network-tried-to-write-a-9th-harry-potter-book-and-the-results-are-hilarious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember that memorable scene in the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books when a person seeking revenge on Ron turns out to be Dumbledore hiding behind a cream cake?<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t, that\u2019s probably because you read the version of <em>Harry Potter<\/em> written by J.K. Rowling instead of an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_short-term_memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">LSTM recurrent neural network<\/a> \u2014 trained to generate new Hogwarts-related stories using a data set consisting of the series\u2019 first four books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been experimenting with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">deep learning<\/a> over the past few weeks, and the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> story is the result of one of those experiments,\u201d creator Max Deutsch tells Digital Trends. \u201cBeyond just looking for a fun way to practice what I\u2019ve been learning, the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> project was an attempt to make something enjoyable to read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/neural-network-tried-write-9th-141546746.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/neural-network-tried-write-9th-141546746.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that memorable scene in the Harry Potter books when a person seeking revenge on Ron turns out to be Dumbledore hiding behind a cream cake? If you don\u2019t, that\u2019s probably because you read the version of Harry Potter written by J.K. Rowling instead of an LSTM recurrent neural network \u2014 trained to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61186,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852\/revisions\/61186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}