Google is dedicated to getting into the future with artificial intelligence. New reports suggest that the company is feeding its AI system with romance novels to make it more conversational.
Google Feeding Its AI With Romance Novels
Google's artificial intelligence is learning the language of love literally, because it is being fed with romance novels. In the past months, Google's AI has been reading passages from romance novels like "Unconditional Love," "Ignited, "Fatal Desire," and "Jacked Up."
Google is doing this to make its AI more conversational. "Hopefully with this work, and future work, it can be more conversational, or can have a more varied tone, or style, or register," Andrew Dai, Google software engineer and project lead told BuzzFeed News.
Why Use Romance Novel For Training AI?
Per the reports, romance novels are great training materials for Google's AI because it tells similar stories in different words. When AI reads this, it can detect which sentences have similar meanings. It will help the AI gain a nuanced understanding of language. Romance novels are better than children's learn-to-read books.
Feeding the AI engine with novels is not that simple. The engine also known as neural network starts without knowledge. It has an empty memory. Thus, feeding novels is like reading stories to a baby. It needs about 2,865 romance novels to build the AI.
People Could Possible Fall In Love With AI
Per Silicon Beat, when Dai was asked if it is possible for people to fall in love with a software entity like AI, his response was affirmative. Dai shared the story of a man who built a beautiful statue. The statue was more beautiful than any women. The man fell in love with the statue and Dai believed that falling in love with an AI trained on romance novels would not be impossible.
What do you think of Google's strategy of feeding their AI with romance novels to make it more conversational? Do you agree that romance novels are great materials for the task? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
