{"id":74687,"date":"2017-12-24T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T03:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-christmas-carol-and-its-hilariously-bad"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:14:04","slug":"a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-christmas-carol-and-its-hilariously-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-christmas-carol-and-its-hilariously-bad","title":{"rendered":"A deep neural network wrote us a Christmas carol\u2014and it\u2019s hilariously bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-christmas-carol-and-its-hilariously-bad.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t quite mastered the art of their job.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/168770625987\/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network\">Dec. 21 entry<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>I trained a neural network to write Christmas carols and it got confused. In retrospect I should have seen this coming. <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/168770625987\/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/168770625987\/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network\">http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/168770625987\/christmas-carols-ge\u2026al-network<\/a><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanelleCShane\/status\/943867596956254208\/photo\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/XueoR4V5cC\">pic.twitter.com\/XueoR4V5cC<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1164764\/a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-christmas-carol-and-its-hilariously-bad\/?utm_source=qzfb\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1164764\/a-deep-neural-network-wrote-us-a-chri...ource=qzfb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t 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 [\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-74687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687","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=74687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74892,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions\/74892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}