{"id":32503,"date":"2016-12-09T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/this-ais-attempt-to-write-a-christmas-carol-is-absolutely-bone-chilling"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:14:04","slug":"this-ais-attempt-to-write-a-christmas-carol-is-absolutely-bone-chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/this-ais-attempt-to-write-a-christmas-carol-is-absolutely-bone-chilling","title":{"rendered":"This AI\u2019s attempt to write a Christmas carol is absolutely bone-chilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/192711856\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Computers are getting smarter, but first they\u2019re stuck in some sort of uncanny valley of intelligence, reassembling normal, everyday objects into increasingly creepy combinations. First came the revelations of Google\u2019s DeepDream technology, which, in learning to \u201csee\u201d objects, \u201csaw\u201d creepy multi-eyed organisms all over the place, turning the world into a half-sentient dog-like mess.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers in Toronto have used a technology called \u201cneural karaoke\u201d to teach a computer to write a song after looking at a photo, and the little carol it penned after viewing a festive Christmas tree is an absolutely horrifying display of what these things think of us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/ais-attempt-write-christmas-carol-absolutely-bone--247140?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_campaign=default\">http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/ais-attempt-write-christmas-ca...gn=default<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are getting smarter, but first they\u2019re stuck in some sort of uncanny valley of intelligence, reassembling normal, everyday objects into increasingly creepy combinations. First came the revelations of Google\u2019s DeepDream technology, which, in learning to \u201csee\u201d objects, \u201csaw\u201d creepy multi-eyed organisms all over the place, turning the world into a half-sentient dog-like mess. Now, [\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-32503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503","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=32503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38174,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503\/revisions\/38174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}