What happens when you ask a recurrent neural net to cook up some wicked cool new D&D monster names? Hilarity, that’s what.
Intrepid research scientist Janelle Shane from Boulder, Colorado had previously commanded her obedient little RNN to spew out stuff like alternate names for the bands at SXSW. And who wouldn’t wanna rock out to the emo-goth hits of Death Watson or Hard the Heart or maybe bang one’s head to Butte Big Show Destroyer? Totally metal, dude. A bit later, she asked for new spell names for D&D adventurers to toss around. Trust me, you don’t ever wanna face the terror of the Gland Growth spell. More recently, she had her AI bestie conjure up name-tags for a few novel species of monsters. Well played little silico-bio-cortexical-jokester, well played.
Herewith, the less-than-monstrous algorithmic menagerie:
Owlborn
Cat, Stone
Vampire Bear
Kick Spirit
Hatfright
Purple Bird
Slug, Spectral
Wolf, Chromatic
Golem, Rain
Human, Crystal
Hound, Plant
Fish, Astro-
Wolfworm
Ogre, Space
Dog, Goblin
Serpent Shark
Mommy, Greater
Giant, Dunebat
Cloud of Chaos