Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
Wow! Did you know that a new chapter of the saga Harry Potter chapter that was written? No, not by J.K. Rowling, the author of the beloved wizard. So who had written the new chapter? Well, not who but how? Artificial Intelligence! What? Did you say what?! Yes, AI using a predictive keyboard trained on the Harry Potter books.
Harry Potter books
J.K. Rowling
The Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked like a Large Pile of Ash is the tittle of the new chapter! A bit strange, no? Non-sense? A kin of.
Well, well, let's continue. The team at Botnik Studios, a community of writers, artists and developers building and using machine tools to remix and transform language, gave the world access to a predictive keyboard trained on all seven Harry Potter books.
Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
"We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter."
The Botnik team @botniskstudios
Botnik used those algorithmically constructed sentences to write a new chapter in the Harry Potter saga, and the results, including the name of the 'new book', are equally insane and hilarious.
Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
Synopsis:
Within roughly three full pages of the new book titled Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash, Ron begins eating Hermione's family, two Death Eaters kiss, Harry blinds himself, Hermione sticks a Death Eater's face in mud, and Harry falls down a staircase for several months.
Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
credits: Botnik
"The Predictive Writer takes chunks of text and
examines it to find patterns in sentences, and then produces suggestions for
how a sentence should continue based on what words came before it, similar to
how some smartphone keyboards make suggestions based on what you type."
Jamie Brew, Botnik CEO and co-founder
For this project, Harry Potter, dozens of people were able to use the predictive keyboard (which you can use too, for both narration and dialogue) and submit ted their creations to Botnik.
Some of the best sentences were chosen by an editor
and compiled into the chapter Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked like a Large Pile of Ash.
Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
credits: Botnik
Education:
"The idea of Botnik is that humans and machines working together can come up with things that neither would be able to on their own,"
Jamie Brew, Botnik CEO and co-founder
Of course this project non-sense and amusing it is, can be include into school curriculum to show how AI will be present in different digital resources to explore with students at school.
Harry Potter and the Portrait of what
Looked like a Large Pile of Ash
- Students can hear the Audio Book here (with some laughs).
- Using predictive keyboard wich they can use too, for narration and dialogue
Let see what your students will write as narrative text! Perhaps a new chapter of Harry Potter?
They will be so enthusiastic to write on this way. Who knows if you wiil discover a new young writer among your students?
G-Souto
18.12.2017
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