What befall when you flow the text of every Magic calling card ever made to a deep neural connection and demand it to contrive its own scorecard ? Part genius , part gibberish — and maybe a piddling poetry . But mostly , it just makes you express mirth your ass off .
The neuronic mesh project first came to our aid in early June , when a exploiter cite Talco at theMTGSalvation forum post about it :
I ’m a Ph.D. nominee research worker in computer science who has been investigating the use of deep neuronal networks for categorization and job solve job . I saw a sport article about training a neural connection on arbitrary data to father novel chronological sequence . For example , you force the meshwork to read Shakespeare over and over and eventually it can drop a line its own texts in the style of Shakespeare . I saw that and thought : hey , why not Magic cards or else of Shakespeare ? So I download the source code ( here ) and a json corpus of Magic card ( here ) . I resolve to give a mystifying neuronic meshing all of the Magic cards ever made in the hopes that it might be able to press up some new ace .
Some of the cards the A.I. make are a circumstances funnier if you know a moment about the rule of Magic . But some of them are just uproarious piles of macrocosm salad . For lesson :
Slidshocking KrowUCreature – DragonTromple , Mointainspalk4/2
Some of these bill technically function within Magic ’s rule — but they do utterly ludicrous things , like a card with this ability :
3 , : add up 2 to your mana pool .
Even if you jazz nothing about Magic , you do it that paying three of something to get two of that same matter is a bad pile .
But things catch really interesting when a Twitter account started rendering card using some of the A.I. ’s pattern . Using the Twitter handle@RoboRosewater(a reference to Mark Rosewater , the actual human promontory of Magic R&D , who has himself joke about the A.I. ) , the account carry a new card every twenty-four hours . Some are sublime .
We need a rules revision that will leave Tark ’s Flowstork to matter as both spell out types for Tarmogoyf .
Some menu sound like Bono and Ronnie James Dio write a song together .
“ Aaaaaaangellllll Desiiiiiiiyaaaaaah . ”
“ LOOK OUT ! BAT WIZARD ! ”
A few are actually really practiced wizard wit . perchance a little too good . I stand for , not Mointainspalk estimable , but passably good .
Wait , “ hall Saproling ” ?
On occasion the A.I. clearly seems to be troll us . scan the last part of the card text carefully here .
Sometimes it just die .
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