Comments | venta: Any fool can think of words that rhyme

venta

Any fool can think of words that rhyme

Sep 08, 2010 17:11

Thanks to j4's recent post, I know now that there is a thing called Google Scribe. Which tries to second guess you as you type.

If you put in one word, then just begin accepting every auto-completion it offers you by hitting 'return', it generates ( rubbish )

internet, waffle, silly games

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beckyl September 8 2010, 16:23:22 UTC

Thank you - I now have a unresolved plot bunny about a character using the contents of his spam filters to predict terrible catastrophes and suffering Cassandra-like indiference from the rest of the world.

venta September 8 2010, 16:25:30 UTC

Does he ever predict that he's won $703.17 in an overseas lottery?

bateleur September 8 2010, 19:33:13 UTC

so I'ma keep

From autocomplete? Now that's just depressing.

celestialweasel September 8 2010, 20:17:04 UTC

I got the 'invention...' attractor from the word 'tabulator'.

drdoug September 8 2010, 21:01:30 UTC

Like most divination systems, there is a surprisingly limited repertoire of readings ( ... )

venta September 9 2010, 11:10:40 UTC

by their fruits ye shall know them

Well if that isn't apoplectic apocalyptical prophesying, I don't know what is.

hmmm_tea September 8 2010, 22:06:23 UTC

So how long before someone translates the complete works of Shakespeare into gibberish using it?

venta September 9 2010, 07:21:42 UTC

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day in the life of their own and do not want to be related?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate climates of the world's largest international multimedia news agency!

(The mildly interesting bit is that in the second line I stopped typing after the "and" - it got the "more temperate" bit correct.)

drdoug September 9 2010, 11:28:16 UTC

This is huge fun but a time-sink of the first order. It's surprising (or not) how much pops up with the original stuff, and how much is ... different. I think I shall long remember "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come ( ... )

venta September 9 2010, 11:34:23 UTC

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come /
When we have any questions or concerns about these privacy policies"

Yes, that is particularly fine.

The most noticable thing to me is that you have to stop at arbitrary points. Google Scribe seems to be enjoying a constant game of Cheddar Gorge, and is very bad at finishing sentences if left to its own devices and they are nothing but another form of therapy...

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