Many read them, few admit it: they are the so-called romance novels, those often happy ending titles that base their plot on more or less complex love stories developing lines and lines of character analysis of the protagonists to untangle an all pink skein, in fact, intricate from the beginning.
I am not a particularly lover of the genre, indeed I am not at all, but unlike me there is someone much more authoritative who has made a feast of titles like this: gentlemen and gentlemen, here we are talking about Google!
Well, Google reads romance novels ... or something like that: in an interview that appeared on BuzzFeed, we read that to the Google Artificial Intelligence engine have been fed just under 3000 romance novels (2865, to be precise) for teach the neural network a understand the facets of spoken language as well as syntactic and ea return even more natural results.
In short, the goal is to teach Google to be more human - to the sound of romance novels, in fact.
It would be much more satisfying to ask Google questions if Google were able to grasp the nuances of the question itself and if it could answer in a more familiar way.
In fact, as Jason Freidenfels explains, the Google app is currently capable of understand and interpret only basic questions: for example, the engine will answer the question "When was the Eiffel Tower built?" and he will understand who you are referring to (therefore the intrinsic meaning of the pronoun) if you subsequently ask him "Who built it?", but he is unable to carry out more natural conversations or to understand sarcasm and more subtle facets of the discourse.
These are the results that the engineers, in part, aim to achieve by having Google read thousands and thousands of romance novels: not to make Google a dowager or a conqueror, but to expand its vocabulary and creative skills, in an attempt to make it more and more. close to the style and tones of this type of narration, so as to make Artificial Intelligence more understanding and improve the user experience of Google products.
Why romance novels and not children's books, naturally chosen as a "training" method? Simple: the romance novels similar plots and themes follow, but they use a larger vocabulary for expressing ideas.
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