Janelle Shane

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

By Janelle Shane On July 31, 2020 - 2 min read

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

By Janelle Shane On July 23, 2020 - 3 min read

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

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2020 - 7 min read

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

By Janelle Shane On July 03, 2020 - 4 min read

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/

Depixellation? Or hallucination?

By Janelle Shane On June 26, 2020 - 4 min read

There’s an application for neural nets called “photo upsampling” which is designed to turn a very low-resolution photo into a higher-res one. This is an image from a recent paper demonstrating one of these algorithms, called “PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models [https://github.

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