“Perhaps that’s my failure.”Forster’s thriller is just one of 11,000 novels that researchers including Oriol Vinyals and Andrew M Dai at Google Brain have been using to improve the technology giant’s conversational style. “We could have used many different sets of data for this kind of training, and we have used many different ones for different research projects,” he adds. She’s fascinated to hear that romance novels are being used to improve the search conglomerate’s ability to speak. Google Books won in 2013, with the district court ruling that “all society benefits” from the project, a decision that the supreme court declined to review earlier this year. “The research in question uses these novels for the exact purpose intended by their authors – to be read,” she argues.

Source: The Guardian September 28, 2016 09:00 UTC