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Every year, Queen Elizabeth delivers whatâs known as the Christmas Broadcast, looking back on the year that was, lamenting losses, and celebrating achievements, before wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
But many of us have struggled to find the words to discuss the horrors of this year â starting emails with âhope youâre keeping well?" or repeatedly pasting a gif of a dumpster fire into group chats. While the Queen has decades of experience discussing tough topics â and speech writers â even she may need a little inspiration, so WIRED has turned to three sets of experts to generate a Christmas Broadcast speech using artificial intelligence. Where applicable, the systems have been trained on a data set of 44,984 words from every Christmas message back to her very first in 1952, as well as 18,426 words from ten WIRED stories about Covid-19.