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）.

一個文本預測虛擬鍵盤以JK羅琳的小說《哈利·波特》為藍本寫了一個新故事，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團隊將《哈利·波特》的七部小說輸入文本預測虛擬鍵盤，而后得到一個全新的哈利·波特故事的一個章節(jié)：《哈利·波特與看起來像一大堆灰燼的肖像》。它很值得一讀。

“魔法：哈利·波特認為這是非常好的東西?！钡拇_，是這樣沒錯。接下來的內(nèi)容聽起來很有哈利的風格：“當哈利穿過空地走向城堡時，堅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?！?/p>

到這里為止，還頗有羅恩的風格。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。

‘如果你們兩個不能快樂地團結(jié)在一起，我會變得越來越具有攻擊性。通情達理的赫敏坦白地說。”

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

波特尼克公司對自己的定位是“人機娛樂工作室和寫作社區(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。文本預測虛擬鍵盤是該工作室的第一個寫作工具。波特尼克公司解釋道：它的工作原理是根據(jù)語法和所使用的詞匯來分析文本主體，“來找出可能性的詞語組合”。正如《新政治家》在相關專題中寫到的那樣，結(jié)果就是：“模糊的識別和絕對的荒謬?！?/p>

該公司在其官網(wǎng)上表示：“我們使用計算工具來創(chuàng)造奇異的新事物。出于私心，我們并不想用算法來取代人類。相反，我們希望能夠找到一些自然的方式，讓人類和機器之間產(chǎn)生互動，共同創(chuàng)造，這種創(chuàng)造僅憑人類或是機器任何一方都無法單獨實現(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《實習醫(yī)生風云》和《宋飛正傳》創(chuàng)作出極好的劇本（“約會的對立面是金槍魚，而三文魚的對立面是任何其他事物。我相信你明白我的意思?！?杰瑞說）。