Weird World

Man trains an A.I. to generate some very authentic sounding British place names

Dan Hom used a neural network to generate some completely made up but very convincing British town/village names – “There aren’t as many cocks as you’d think,” he writes in his post that describes how he did it.

Here are some of our favourites.

Dan also mentions that Tom Taylor did a similar thing in 2016, generating English village names. He turned it into a Twitter bot that takes you on an “endless journey through an imaginary England”.

And perhaps the most English of all fake villages:

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