A predictive text keyboard wrote a new Harry Potter story using JK Rowlings books and it became one of the funniest things on the Internet.

After the team at Botnik fed the seven Harry Potter novels through their predictive text keyboard， it came up with a chapter from a new Harry Potter story： Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash. It is worth reading.

“Magic： it was something that Harry Potter thought was very good.” Well， thats not wrong. And the following sounds plausibly Pottery： “Leathery sheets of rain lashed at Harrys ghost as he walked across the grounds towards the castle. Ron was standing there and doing a kind of frenzied tap dance.”

So far， so Ron. But then：

“He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermiones family. Rons Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself.

‘If you two cant clump happily， Im going to get aggressive， confessed the reasonable Hermione.”

It continues in this vein： almost making sense， but mostly just gloriously bonkers， like “To Harry， Ron was a loud， slow， and soft bird. Harry did not like to think about birds.” and “They looked at the door， screaming about how closed it was and asking it to be replaced with a small orb. The password was ‘BEEF WOMEN， Hermione cried.”

Botnik describes itself as “a human-machine entertainment studio and writing community”， with members including former Clickhole head writer Jamie Brew， and former New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. The predictive text keyboard is its first writing tool. It works， Botnik explains， by analysing a body of text “to find combinations of words likely to follow each other” based on the grammar and vocabulary used. As the New Statesman feature says， the results are： “faintly recognisable and completely absurd.”

“We use computational tools to create strange new things，” says the company on its website. “We would like， selfishly， not to replace humanity with algorithms. Instead， we want to find natural ways for people and machines to interact to create what neither would have created alone.”

As well as the new Harry Potter chapter， Botnik has also created incredible TV scripts for Scrubs and Seinfeld （“Dating is the opposite of tuna， salmon is the opposite of everything else. Im sure you know what I mean，” says Jerry）.

一個(gè)文本預(yù)測(cè)虛擬鍵盤以JK羅琳的小說(shuō)《哈利·波特》為藍(lán)本寫了一個(gè)新故事，它成為互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上最有趣的事件之一。

波特尼克公司的一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)將《哈利·波特》的七部小說(shuō)輸入文本預(yù)測(cè)虛擬鍵盤，而后得到一個(gè)全新的哈利·波特故事的一個(gè)章節(jié)：《哈利·波特與看起來(lái)像一大堆灰燼的肖像》。它很值得一讀。

“魔法：哈利·波特認(rèn)為這是非常好的東西。”的確，是這樣沒(méi)錯(cuò)。接下來(lái)的內(nèi)容聽起來(lái)很有哈利的風(fēng)格：“當(dāng)哈利穿過(guò)空地走向城堡時(shí)，堅(jiān)韌如皮革似的雨水擊打著他的魂魄。而羅恩正站在一旁，跳著一種瘋狂的踢踏舞。”

到這里為止，還頗有羅恩的風(fēng)格。但是緊接著：

“他看到哈利，然后立刻開始吃赫敏一家人。羅恩的羅恩襯衫就像他本人一樣糟糕。

‘如果你們兩個(gè)不能快樂(lè)地團(tuán)結(jié)在一起，我會(huì)變得越來(lái)越具有攻擊性。通情達(dá)理的赫敏坦白地說(shuō)?！?/p>

之后的內(nèi)容延續(xù)了這種風(fēng)格：看上去似乎非常合理，實(shí)際上大都只是極度的瘋狂和荒謬，比如：“在哈利看來(lái)，羅恩是一只聲音響亮、動(dòng)作緩慢而軟弱的鳥。哈利不喜歡去想與鳥有關(guān)的東西?！边€有，“他們盯著那扇門，因其緊緊關(guān)閉著而大聲尖叫，并要求用一個(gè)小球來(lái)代替它。‘密碼是“壯碩的女人”。赫敏喊道?！?/p>

波特尼克公司對(duì)自己的定位是“人機(jī)娛樂(lè)工作室和寫作社區(qū)”，其成員包括Clickhole網(wǎng)站前任首席撰稿人杰米·布魯和《紐約客》雜志前任漫畫編輯鮑勃·曼科夫。文本預(yù)測(cè)虛擬鍵盤是該工作室的第一個(gè)寫作工具。波特尼克公司解釋道：它的工作原理是根據(jù)語(yǔ)法和所使用的詞匯來(lái)分析文本主體，“來(lái)找出可能性的詞語(yǔ)組合”。正如《新政治家》在相關(guān)專題中寫到的那樣，結(jié)果就是：“模糊的識(shí)別和絕對(duì)的荒謬?！?/p>

該公司在其官網(wǎng)上表示：“我們使用計(jì)算工具來(lái)創(chuàng)造奇異的新事物。出于私心，我們并不想用算法來(lái)取代人類。相反，我們希望能夠找到一些自然的方式，讓人類和機(jī)器之間產(chǎn)生互動(dòng)，共同創(chuàng)造，這種創(chuàng)造僅憑人類或是機(jī)器任何一方都無(wú)法單獨(dú)實(shí)現(xiàn)。”

除了新版本的《哈利·波特》章節(jié)，波特尼克公司還為電視劇《實(shí)習(xí)醫(yī)生風(fēng)云》和《宋飛正傳》創(chuàng)作出極好的劇本（“約會(huì)的對(duì)立面是金槍魚，而三文魚的對(duì)立面是任何其他事物。我相信你明白我的意思?！?杰瑞說(shuō)）。