Voyages in sentence space (nonfiction)

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Voyages in sentence space is a linguistic neural network project by Robin Sloan which takes two sentences and uses them to generate a series of intermediate gradient sentences.

Sloan writes:

Imagine a sentence. “I went looking for adventure.”

Imagine another one. “I never returned.”

Now imagine a sentence gradient between them—not a story, but a smooth interpolation of meaning. This is a weird thing to ask for! I’d never even bothered to imagine an interpolation between sentences before encountering the idea in a recent academic paper. But as soon as I did, I found it captivating, both for the thing itself—a sentence… gradient?—and for the larger artifact it suggested: a dense cloud of sentences, all related; a space you might navigate and explore.

Website: https://www.robinsloan.com/voyages-in-sentence-space/

Examples:

  • The ends justify the means
  • The eyes jostled them.
  • He should journey on to the moonships.
  • He still hungered over to the men of Earth.
  • Again John was down, and they were both.
  • A very voice, and it had seemed clear.
  • Do unto others what you would have them do unto you