AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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2020 Headlines

2020 Headlines

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as: > Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered in
A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of success. My earliest [https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your] recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling, punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible (Swamp Peef and Cheese, anyone? Or
Post-human flirting

Post-human flirting

In Henry J. Wehman’s The Mystery of Love, Courtship and Marriage Explained (1890) [https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n33/mode/2up] there are charts of secret messages Victorian flirters could send with fans, parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs. Whether the handkerchief codes were ever in use (or mainly used
What to do with your time

What to do with your time

In Leonardo DaVinci’s diary you can find his to-do lists [https://jrbenjamin.com/2018/01/05/da-vincis-to-do-lists/], the kinds of broad-ranging investigations the famous polymath would use to occupy his time: > Draw Milan. Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle Ask Giannino
Splorts Teams

Splorts Teams

There is a game called Blaseball [https://www.blaseball.com/]that started online in summer 2020. Gameplay is both entirely straightforward [https://www.gains.af/blog/blaseball] and profoundly confusing [https://catacalypto.substack.com/p/i-am-all-love-blaseball-and-so-can] - a rulebook is now available, but is almost completely redacted, and what is
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