Voyages in sentence space (nonfiction)

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/

Example

• 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

Example

• In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
• You know the beginning--a friend who cannot go on.
• And all the women of Arcote were thickers.
• Now the woman's absence was intense.
• On the insults of Astro.
• She nodded in her hand.
• Man is the measure of all things