What happens if you allow a nervous web promiscuous on inventing epithet for monster in dungeon and firedrake ? Well , it turns out it occur up with some rather ridiculous suggestions .
Research scientist Janelle Shane from Boulder , Colorado antecedently used arecurrent neural networkto come up with some oddspell namesfor D&D , but this clock time around she turn her powers of mirth towards creating new names for monster .
“ It turns out that in summation to spellbooks , Dungeons and Dragons also has monster manual – book full of the figure and descriptions of creatures that adventurers can encounter , ” she write on her blogAI Weirdness .
So she fed the names of 2,205 creatures from the 2nd edition colossus manual of arms into her nervous meshing . This direct to a form of rather wonderful names : Spectral Slug , Vampire Bear , Spare Ogre , and Cloud of Chaos among them .
We have sex Goblin Dog , too . Then there was a range of somewhat fearsome - sound tool , include Fire Brain , Marraganralleraith ( ? ) , and Fire Undead Lake Man . Oh and perhaps the more timid sounding Desert Beeple .
And there were a few dragon too , include the imaginatively call Big Dragon , and also Purple Fang Dragon , and Dead Dragon . lastly , a few unicorns – Fumble Unicorn and Black Willow Unicorn among them .
Shane articulate she was now involve people toenter their owncharacter ’s name , race , and class from D&D , so she could try and generate character name in a next projection . And she ’s looking for somecharacter backstoriestoo , presumably to try and get the neural connection to write a few of these .
This is n’t the first clock time we ’ve seen AI have a stab at come in up with idea . Shane has antecedently shared her AI essay atconvincing - sounding disease names,“sexy " Halloween costume ideas , andguinea pig names .
It ’s even more difficult for AI to get creative . Last yr , there was a rather amusing attempt to write the nextGame of Thronesbook , while we also see a hilarious try at writingHarry Potterfan fabrication . And do n’t forget thoseinspirational posters .
It ’s not all fun and game though . Earlier this year , AI was successfully used to at last crock up the mysteriousVoynich manuscript , and a rich neural web was used to recreate simulacrum frominside the human brain .
( H / T : Nerdist )
