Story titles, invented by neural network

So Prof. Mark Reidl of Georgia Tech is the best kind of geek, and used some cool scripting to extract all the things on Wikipedia with plot summaries: movies, books, tv episodes, video games, etc. That’s a lot of plot summaries: 112,936, to be exact.

With a dataset this large, a neural network can achieve impressive results. Sure enough, when I trained this open-source neural network framework on just the titles alone, it consistently came up with titles that were both varied and (usually) plausible.

Below are some of my favorites, arranged roughly by apparent genre:

Action/Adventure Titanic Buffalo

Pirates: A Fight Dance Story

The Bad Legend

Conan the Pirate

O Bullets

Home Transformers

Shurk Hat Dies!

An Enemy of Bob (Homicide: Life on the Street)

Cannibal Spy II

American Hero: Fire of Crusty

Lego Man Hunt

Nancy Drew: The Last Day (film)

Surf Crisis

Legend of the Experience of Scarlet Freedom Damageboo

American Midnight: Swear Dragon

Problem

Scifi/fantasy Under the Daleks

Batman and Flancles: The Fun Tree

The Legends of World Planet

Bomberman’s Love

The Enchanted Feed

The Star Wars: The Santa Contact

The Long Ninja Dove in the Air (film)

The History of the Galaxy Bunny Lada

City of the Stupid (film)

Shy Castle

Hamburger (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Swords and Batman: Summer Party ?

Kids/Family The Boordeeple (2011 film)

A Dog’s Toy Friends

Boop (Adventure Time)

A Dinosaur Quest

Colonel Corn (video game)

Scooby-Drum

New Bear

Borky the Pig (film)

Excellent Very Broken Christmas

The Great Bother Cat (film)

Happy Cat in the Yaku Wonder

Fireman and Halloween Rules

Big Can Flower Home

The Green Yaurglar Pig

Scooby-Doo'Wagon Traps (video game)

Book Dog (film)

Horror Terror Dog

Tree Screaming

Zombies of Florence

The Trunkelling

A Vampire Time for Monster

Murder’s Eagle

Frozen Bat (film)

Haunted Place

The Sheep of Evil

Barney’s The Devil’s Treachery

Merry Scroobers: Crown of Evil

The Steel-Pounted Murder King

The Shadow of Life of Very Worgy (film)

The Mystical Booged of California

Documentary Market that Knave

Spork at Bliss

The White Soup

An Indiana Office

The Last Fish Show

The Fish of Education

Restricted section (there were quite a few more of these) Absilloved Lovers 2: Black Bearfly Dawn

Horse Man Academy 5-R: Cowboy Sheeper Wydex

Breed Bot 3: The Journey Kitchen

Wild Bad Party 109

Pink Moon

Indiscreet Maidman

And finally, a list of the most quintessential story titles, obtained by setting the creativity to near zero on a highly-trained network: