Leathery sheets of rain lashed at Harry’s ghost as he walked across the grounds toward the castle. Ron was standing there and doing a kind of frenzied tap dance. He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family.”
This is the beginning of a new chapter of Harry Potter, written just this week. You may notice some subtle differences from the original, but that’s because this chapter was written, no joke, by predictive text.
It’s not just any predictive text, either. A group of writers, artists and tech nerds called Botnik has spent time training a predictive keyboard with the text of all seven Harry Potter books, resulting in a program that writes uncannily Rowling-esque prose, albeit a little weirder. A group of writers sat down to muck around with the algorithm, and out of this human/machine collaboration came the greatest work of literature of this decade.
We’re pretty sure it got even more rave reviews than the original series
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