AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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My Name is Bot

My Name is Bot

Text-generating neural networks can do a lot more now than they used to. When I first started generating things with neural networks, sentences and even simple phrases were mostly beyond them (that didn’t stop me from trying, with hilariously inept results [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159302925452/the-neural-network-generated-pickup-lines-that-are] ). But now
Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

What would you do with more memory? Clearly, play more complex games. One difference between OpenAI’s new text generator (known as GPT-3) [https://aiweirdness.com/post/623543644426829825/facts-about-whales] and the other neural networks I’ve used in the past is that it now looks at much more text when
Choose Your Quarantine House

Choose Your Quarantine House

So far one of my favorite uses of OpenAI’s new API [https://beta.openai.com/] (which people are calling GPT-3) is for making absurd memes. One of the memes from March/April 2020 was quarantine houses, where people under sudden covid-19 stay-at-home orders took stock of the skills and
Facts about whales

Facts about whales

When a neural net can imitate just about any kind of text on the internet, the challenge is to tell it precisely what to imitate. In my last preview of OpenAI’s new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] I asked it some pretty basic questions about horses, and it often
When data is messy

When data is messy

There’s a story I tell in my book [https://youlooklikeathing.com] because it’s a great illustration of how AI gets the wrong idea about what problem we’re asking it to solve: Researchers at the University of Tuebingen trained a neural net to recognize images [https://medium.com/
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