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
Example
- No man is above the law.
- Not in a few of days.
- Now they fell into danger.
- Now the details moved in a minute.
- No, no--coming out of this one's eyes.
- When the figures got to their faces, they had first.
- When the President does it, that means it's not illegal.
Example
- But a man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for?
- It's more extra Max ready forward to fix it against itself.
- It'll go on difficult place for several second to forget the pain.
- It is not more difficult enough to match a few who made the sea.
- Now we are containee love and mystification and mind.
- Now I am become enjoyed the affairs of war.
- Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
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.
- For any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited
- Art is anything you can get away with.