Artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool. It’s used for some insanely useful things like driverless cars, voice-activated home assistants, and scaring the shit outta Elon Musk. But the most useful application of all is finally here, folks.
That’s right, a neural network trained on thousands of band names has finally produced a bogus Coachella lineup. The results are – like most other AI-generated names/stories/anything – both terrifying and hilarious.
Announcing your 2018 COACHELLA LINEUP, generated by a neural network trained on thousands of band names: https://t.co/EskuBWOdfy pic.twitter.com/J06jgc3x2R
— Botnik Studios (@botnikstudios) January 23, 2018
I don’t know about you, but I can’t fucking wait to catch Fanch and Horse Choir this year. Good grief. To be fair, any one of these could be a legitimate band name, which is probably where the terrifying aspect of the whole thing kicks in.
My personal favourites are:
Hoop of Gomb
Bogwolf
Bampis
Deep Harris
Billions of Mario
“Food” Thoyd
Donut Shookworth
U? P!
Lungo
Sensational stuff. The company behind the AI that put this together, Botnik, were also responsible for the extremely weird computer generated Harry Potter fan fiction and fake Star Wars: The Last Jedi reviews.
These types of algorithms work, in basic terms, by being fed a huge amount of source materials – in this case, band names – and using them to come up with its own creations using similar ideas, like blending two words together, for example.
TL;DR: We’re another day closer to total annihilation at the hands of AI.
