Researcher builds AI rapper to spit sick rhymes — with mixed results
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Researcher builds AI rapper to spit sick rhymes - with mixed results
The 'Home-made Rap Machine' certaintly has the attitude but perhaps now the skills
A new contender has emerged for the title of best rapper alive: An AI dubbed the 'Home-made Rap Machine.
Li Yang Ku, a researcher at robotics firm Vicarious AI, trained the neural network to rap by feeding it classic lines by MCs including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg. He then entered some of his own rhymes as an input and asked it to complete the rap.
Li described the results as "entertaining but with limited success,"
It did show a reasonable grasp of slang, responding to the input "No rap is free, this thing cost me a fee" with "I got a whole lotta guap on me," as well as respectable swearing skills, answering the line "If you don't like your output rap" with "Where the fuck am I going back."
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Like so many modern rappers, it tended to value style over substance.
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