Janelle Shane

AI doesn't understand scale

By Janelle Shane On June 24, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite ways to mess around with text-generating AI is to see what it does with new games that didn't exist on the internet back when its training data was collected. OpenAI's GPT-3 models were trained with data that cut off in late 2019

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2021 - 2 min read

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its planned hurricane names years in advance, and includes a pronunciation guide [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf] for each name. An excerpt from NOAA's 2026 Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations: > Arthur AR-thur Bertha BUR-thuh

Fun facts about fun guys

By Janelle Shane On June 04, 2021 - 3 min read

The neural net GPT-3 has seen a lot of dating profiles during its internet training. But has it seen the Bachelorette contestant variety of astonishingly pedestrian dating profile?

AI-generated food trucks

By Janelle Shane On May 21, 2021 - 3 min read

One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that your idea is creative enough? Lindsay Diamond [https://neurdy.com/] suggested a possible neural net solution. So as a demonstration, I wrote

Botsplaining

By Janelle Shane On May 14, 2021 - 5 min read

When I used GPT-3 to generate inscrutable new Star Wars jokes, Lisa Wong asked [https://twitter.com/AllKindsOfWong/status/1390707212004122628?s=20], “Can the A.I also generate the condescending explanation as to why the joke is funny and how I just don’t have a sense of humor? That

AI doesn't understand scale

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AI-generated food trucks

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