Robot writes five chapters of the next Game of Thrones book

If you are still impacted by what happened in the last episode of this season of Game of Thrones know that you are not the only one. Such as HBO should air the last season of the series only in 2019, and the books have not yet been finished by George RR Martin. This should demonstrate a long journey with nothing about the series for fans.

To try to reduce this abstinence, the software engineer Zack Thoutt used an algorithm to predict what will happen in the sixth book in the series. “I'm tired of waiting for the next book of Game of Thrones, so I decided to train a neural network – a form of artificial intelligence – recurring with the first five books and using network predictions to create the sixth book in the series.” Github, where the project is published.

After feeding a type of a artificial intelligence known as a neural network, the engineer has included more than 5.000 pages from the previous five books in the series Game of Thrones written by RR Martin. The engineer gave the machine only the first word of each chapter, always the name of a character to follow the style of the original author, and the number of words to be generated. And the result was surprising.

As neural networks are machine learning algorithms that are inspired by the human brain's ability to learn from past experiences, and recurrent neural networks are a subclass of them, which deal with sequences of data, such as texts.

What did the robot predict?

First of all, let me warn you that this is going to be a territory full of spoilers. Follow at your own risk! 😉

As per the robot's predictions, some longtime fan theories for the book The Winds of Winter happen. Jon Snow flies commanding a dragon. This comes all the more strongly after it was revealed in the last episode of last season that the Stark bastard is, in fact, Aegon Targaryens, son of Rhaegar Targaryen on lyanna stark, and nephew of Daenerys Targaryen. Another important event is the poisoning of Mother of the Dragons by Varys. Yes, Cersei Lannister is killed by her twin brother, James.

The robot also features some quite unexpected plot twists such as the presence of Ned Stark, killed early on in the plot, which doesn't make much sense. But, it's understandable since there are characters who come back from the dead in the original work. a new character, greenbeard, is presented and Sansa Stark is actually a Baratheon.

But it's not that perfect

According to the creator, not everything is perfect. The writing is clumsy and, most of the time, meaningless. “The robot is not building a long-term story and the grammar is not perfect. But, is able to learn the basics of the English language and the structure of the style of George RR Martin on their own,” he adds. Thoutt .

You can read all the chapters on the page GitHub for the project. Each chapter starts with a character's name, just like the real books of RR Martin. Despite all the problems, these five awkward chapters are the best things we have while we wait for Martin to finish. The Winds of Winter, Or the HBO announce when the final season will be.