Thursday, 23 July 2015
Computer-Generated Magic Cards
There has been a lot of internet chatter recently about recurrent neural networks. Just do a google search of that term if you don’t know what that is; I ain’t here to educamate you on it.
What I am here to do is talk about one of my favorite recent uses for a recurrent neural network: generating Magic: The Gathering cards!
MTG Salvation forum members led by user Talcos have been using these networks to generate new, novel, insane, and hilarious MTG cards. And for your convenience there’s also a twitter account that posts a card once a day.
I laughed SO HARD when I was reading through them. Here are just a few of my favorites:
(They was kicked.)
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 12, 2015
This. This spell.
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 12, 2015
Cat Clerics!
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 12, 2015
Here, look at this card. You can’t have it!
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 20, 2015
Hellogoodbye!
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 22, 2015
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful…
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) June 29, 2015
Congratulations: a sorcery
Tark's Flowstork pic.twitter.com/WDjU1i29SP
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) July 6, 2015
Angelic Sludge
Sludge of the Machine pic.twitter.com/jxVKmiMxau
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) July 12, 2015
Not ready yet
Dorsersteel Lava pic.twitter.com/Wpxobmxtd8
— RoboRosewater (@RoboRosewater) July 15, 2015
Go take a look through the entire twitter feed and also the forum thread to see the magic of artificial intelligence hard at work. And also to laugh your ass off.
Categories: Computers, Future Living.
