While some jobs are being replaced at a rapid rate by robots, it is fair to say that the job of best selling author is safe from our modern day technology.
After training an algorithmic tool on all seven of JK Rowling’s original wizarding novels, the bot came up with the chapter, titled ‘The Handsome One’.
The predictive keyboard was designed by robot- ics company Botnik Studios, and the three-page chapter is taken from the made-up book called Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash. The plot makes absolutely no sense, but the style of writing resembles Rowling’s style complete with sprinkles of British colloquialisms.
The chapter begins with “The castle grounds snarled with a wave of magically magnified winds.” It goes on to read that “the sky outside was a great black ceiling, which was full of blood. The only sounds drifting from Hagrid’s hut were the disdainful shrieks of his own furniture. Magic: it was something that Harry Potter thought was very good.”
However, things get weird when Harry bumps into a tap-dancing Ron, who “saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family” and Harry dipping Hermione in hot sauce, yup, you read that right — hot sauce “Not so handsome now,’ thought Harry as he dipped Hermione in hot sauce. The Death Eaters were dead now, and Harry was hungrier than he had ever been.”
The Verge reports that both the chapter and the predictive text programme were designed and created by Jamie Brew, a former writer for satirical news sites such as Clickhole and The Onion.
And while the chapter is messy and plotless people on the internet are going wild for it.
