These place names are straight out of Monthy Python.
An AI has invented silly and rude place names for a country that already boasts Nob End, Pity Me, and Great Snoring.
In a post on Medium, Dan Hon explains how he took a list of British place names and analyzed them with a neural network.
(He used jcjohnson’s torch-rnn.)
Step 5 is the most English: “Go and have a cup of tea while you train your model”.
Faster than you can say “Titty-Ho”, he generated a list of new and bizarre places.
Here’s some of my favourites:
* Wascood Woot’s Corner
* Filton-on’s Forton
* Top-Road Quinting
* Grinachard St Ringley— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) July 19, 2017
Even more!
* Farton Green Pear End
* Brotters Common
* Ouch
* Higher Ridgerton
* Fottington— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) July 19, 2017
A jolly fine use for an AI, eh? Pip, pip!
