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

Sentences to use

• But a man's reach should exceed his grasp else what's a heaven for?
• We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration.