The fans of George R.R. Martin's book called the "Game Of Thrones" are becoming impatient as the popular TV series also called the "Game Of Thrones" which is adapted from the book is way ahead of it. The TV show just wrapped up season 7 but the fans of the book are waiting years for the new chapter "A Song Of Ice And Fire". There are rumors that the last season of the TV show is to premiere on early 2019. George R.R. Martin is going to use artificial intelligence to write his sixth book. Martin said that he takes a lot of time developing the story because of many characters and complex plot lines. Zack Thoutt a GOT fan and a data scientist developed an AI which will help Martin finish his books. Thoutt fed the machine all 5,376 pages of the five current books and it generated predictions on what will happen next. Thoutt was inspired to apply AI to Game of Thrones after taking Udacity's deep learning nano-degree program earlier this year. Thoutt told, “It’s obviously not perfect”. “It isn’t building a long-term story and the grammar isn’t perfect. But the network is able to learn the basics of the English language and structure of George R.R. Martin’s style on its own.” Thoutt is using recurrent neural networks, which works well with data sequences. To feed the network with text, he had to create a unique number ID for each word that appeared in the books. According to Thoutt, there was a total of around 32,000 unique words in series. And it might be the best we get for a while, because, let's face it, most of us are so sick of waiting that we've pretty much given up on Martin delivering The Winds of Winter anytime soon...
Thoutt added that Martin’s made up words and locations made it that much more difficult for the AI to figure out. The AI also wasn’t able to realize that some characters had died and continued on with their storyline. You can read The first five chapters of the project on GitHub. Thoutt also said that “Everyone, when the show first started, thought the books would stay ahead of the show, and I had done a project for my nano degree that was pretty similar to the Game of Thrones project that I ended up doing, and that one wrote scripts for The Simpsons.” “When you want to start making predictions, which in this case is writing text, but writing new text, you feed it a prime word,” said Thought. “So I used words for the characters of the book, you know ‘cause in the books, the chapters are named after a character … I would feed it ‘Tyrion’ and then it would predict the next word in the sequences, with a little bit of randomness added in.” The results can be comical. Some confirm popular longheld fan theories, while others throw out random curveballs, such as Sansa Stark somehow being a Baratheon and Jon Snow also being a Lannister. Thoutt plans to continue updating his AI system, which he calls George AI Martin after an interview with VICE, and is encouraging people online to offer him suggestions. “The Winds of Winter” is expected to be the next book but no one, not even Martin, knows when it will be finished. The last time he commented on it was in July and mentioned he was still working on it.
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