Janelle Shane

I'm dressing as a vampire for Halloween! More impressive:I shall be displaying my vampiric prowesses at a Halloween carnaval

How to improve your Halloween costume

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2021 - 3 min read

I've amused myself before [https://www.aiweirdness.com/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-20-06-11/] by getting GPT-3 to change one kind of text into another. With just a few style-change examples, I got it to change the Winnie the Pooh theme song [https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/movies/winnie-the-pooh-theme/index.htm]

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2021 - 3 min read

What do you get if you instruct an AI to turn a house into the most haunted house in the world? What if you ask it for the LEAST haunted house? How does an AI know what "haunted" looks like, anyways? I did some experiments with CLIP+VQGAN

Several lumps of olden cake covered with generous dollops of creamy frosting.

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

By Janelle Shane On October 01, 2021 - 4 min read

There's this baking competition I really like, and one of the elements in every show is what they call the Technical Challenge. In the Technical Challenge, Great British Bakeoff contestants have to bake something they may never have seen before, based solely on a brief description and a

Very normal grocery stores

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2021 - 2 min read

I was reminded recently [https://twitter.com/HardSciFiMovies/status/1438945429878620163] that US grocery stores often have strange names. I grew up shopping at Big Bear and Giant Eagle and thought it was very normal for grocery stores to be named after megafauna. Given a list of real but strange grocery

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

By Janelle Shane On September 12, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite things ever is when AI instructs people to do silly creative things, and the humans gamely play along. For a couple [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-19-09-26/] of Octobers [https://www.aiweirdness.com/628160900506025984/] now I've used various AI models to generate daily #botober drawing

How to improve your Halloween costume

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

Very normal grocery stores

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

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