A neural network defines health as…

One of Mike Lynch’s bot creation is the Glossatory, which generates definitions of words based a recurrent neural network. Mike illustrates some of the more outlandish ones at @glossatory@weirder.earth

a neural net defines AUTHORITY, created by Glossatory/Mike Lynch 2019. Shows a drone-like machine looking over a rough sketch of a village.
a neural net defines AUTHORITY, created by Glossatory/Mike Lynch 2019. Source

The Glossatory is based on a recurrent neural network, which is the type of artificial neural network that’s typically used for machine translation. Mike used a training set of 82,115 definitions that were taken from WordNet. The results are often amusing, frequently incomprehensible, but mostly they’re just odd.

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