Janelle Shane

An impressive rainforest, a san francisco that looks more like scotland, and a tiny furry giraffe

Generating landscapes without people

By Janelle Shane On February 18, 2022 - 5 min read

I've been experimenting with GauGAN2, released [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/22/gaugan2-ai-art-demo/] in Nov 2021 as a follow-on to GauGAN [https://www.aiweirdness.com/this-neural-net-makes-my-sketches-19-06-15/]. One new thing Nvidia added in GauGAN2 is the ability to generate a picture to match a phrase. "A

AI-generated valentine cards including "Valentine is super sexy!" (Image of a chickpea)

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

By Janelle Shane On February 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I remember having to give out Valentine cards in elementary school, a mandatory expression of not-actual-valentine-feeling in which you could express your individuality and warm regard for your best friends and the classroom bully by giving them small store-bought cards with cartoon characters and generic messages on them. But what

Paint swatches including Hog Wash, Light Persuasion, Lucky Chalk, Indecent Taupe, Classy Comma, Harrold's Koala, and Blarg

New AI paint colors

By Janelle Shane On January 28, 2022 - 4 min read

One of my first [https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17/] experiments [https://www.aiweirdness.com/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-17-05-23/] with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors. I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or

Cereal boxes: Orb Crumpets, Foam Squares, and Non-stick Carbonated Waffle Balls

New breakfast cereals from AI

By Janelle Shane On January 21, 2022 - 2 min read

The thing about working with a giant language model like GPT-3 is it has read parts of the internet that it never occurred to me might exist. Like press releases from breakfast cereal companies, articles about press releases from breakfast cereal companies, blogs by breakfast cereal enthusiasts, and probably every

A wooden structure on stilts, with a slatted railing and huge crossbeams

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

By Janelle Shane On January 07, 2022 - 4 min read

I remember when my hometown got one of these giant wooden playgrounds. It must have been in the early 90s and a kid could get lost for hours in there. Or injured or full of splinters or chromated copper arsenate I guess, which is why you don't see

Generating landscapes without people

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

New AI paint colors

New breakfast cereals from AI

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

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