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<\/div>Algorithmic Nonsense<\/h2>
Have you ever heard of a lachetous vine? Maybe you just finished up some worryless tasks?<\/p>
Those words sound vaguely familiar — perhaps you think you’ve heard them before but aren’t sure you could explicitly define them. That’s because they’re gibberish — part of an endless stream of words conjured up by an algorithm programmed to make new words that sound as believable as possible.<\/p>
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Technobabble<\/h2>
The made-up words are generated by the website thisworddoesnotexist.com<\/a>, which is a creation of former Instagram engineer Thomas Dimson, The Verge <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>. Each time the site is refreshed, it comes up with a new word — with varying degrees of success.<\/p> Thisworddoesnotexist uses the OpenAI-created algorithm GPT-2, which generates plausible text that’s been used to algorithmically create everything from text-based adventure games<\/a> to grad school essays<\/a>.<\/p> Because GPT-2 wasn’t trained on dictionaries — The Verge <\/em>reports that it instead scraped 8 million websites from popular Reddit links — some of the new definitions are still a little bit off.<\/p> But AI-generated dictionary is still a notable accomplishment, given that understanding the meanings of words has long been one of the major limitations<\/a> of modern-day artificial intelligence.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>ThisWordDoesNotExist.com is rewriting the dictionary with the help of AI<\/a> [The Verge<\/em>]<\/p> More on GPT-2:<\/strong> This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Go here to see the original: Algorithmic Nonsense Have you ever heard of a lachetous vine? Maybe you just finished up some worryless tasks? Those words sound vaguely familiar \u2014 perhaps you think you\u2019ve heard them before but aren\u2019t sure you could explicitly define them Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/05\/new-word-2-worryless.png\")
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