AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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drawing of a clam with a spiked shell, about the same size as a silhouetted scuba diver

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

"The Megalodon was a large bivalve, measuring up to 2.5 meters in length. Its shell was covered in spines, and it had a large, powerful jaw for crushing prey." Although the megalodon is the most widely known as a giant prehistoric shark, I recently learned that Megalodon
A set of 8 somewhate misshapen eggs with colorful but confusing patterns and bands.

AI-generated easter eggs

How would AI decorate an easter egg? I've tried this before by training an image-generating model exclusively on pictures of easter eggs I decorated (they came out plain, if a bit wobbly [https://www.aiweirdness.com/nonexistent-easter-eggs-20-04-09/]). I decided to see what I would get using a model
A sketch of a computer desktop with a clown for a background and an error window saying you have been pranked

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

I've tried various [https://www.aiweirdness.com/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-18-03-28/] methods [https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank-20-04-01/] of using AI to generate April Fools pranks for you to play on other people (although often they turned out to be pranks you play on yourself [https://www.aiweirdness.com/pranks-you-can-do-at-home/]). But this
Magical Utopia - We've got a wizard living in the shed, who occasionally comes out to do magic and eat cheese sandwiches.

AI-generated utopias

AI isn't known for being able to solve the big problems, but what about the VERY large problems, such as possible futures to strive for? I decided to find out if I could get GPT-3 to come up with new ideas for utopias. Since GPT-3 works by predicting
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