Bringing back to life a poet who died 2000 years ago in 30 min— Thiruvalluvar

Karthick Nambi
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5 min readNov 28, 2019

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“Give to the poor, and life will be richly graced. There is no greater profit for a man than this” - Autogenerated by Open AI GPT2

Waking up a dead poet is technically not possible until Open AI GPT 2 was released. Open AI GPT 2 language has revolutionized the field of text generation. Many enthusiasts have done their interesting writing out of GPT 2 model. I will also try my luck to bring back to life a dead poet 2000 years old.

The poet of Interest:

Thiruvalluvar is a Tamil poet who lived around 3 BCE in Tamilnadu, India. Thiruvalluvar has compiled 1330 verses in 3 segments under a single book called Thirukural. Thirukural is a set of sonnets, which is one and a half-sentence length. His poems are mostly based on morals, ethics of life,etc. Thirukural has got translated into 40 languages until now. Thiruvalluvar is a cultural icon in Tamilnadu, India. His poems are part of the student’s curriculum.

Plan of Attack:

Flowchart of how to generate poems

Open AI GPT 2:

Open AI GPT 2 is based on the transformers concept. Google proposed the Transformer concept in its paper, “Attention is all you need.”…

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Karthick Nambi
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A human with interest in history and technology