Janelle Shane

This is not cozy: AI attempts the Great British Bakeoff

By Janelle Shane On March 27, 2020 - 5 min read

I’m a big fan of comforting TV, and one of my go-tos is the Great British Bakeoff. It’s the cheerful clarinet-filled soundtrack, the low-stakes baking-centric tension, and the general good-natured kindness of the bakers to one another. What better way to spread cheer and baked deliciousness than to

How to change a giraffe into a bird

By Janelle Shane On March 20, 2020 - 3 min read

When people study the ways that AI generates and detects images, they have to use something as a test problem. Delightfully, a recent paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03637] decided to train an AI to transform pictures of giraffes into pictures of birds. Why? Apparently, just to see if

Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2020 - 2 min read

In the course of running a blog where I train neural nets to imitate human things, I have the fun of sometimes being introduced to things that I didn’t know very much about. Like knitting [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] . Or crochet [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187489831262/first-there-was-skyknit-now-theres-hat3000]

This neural net knows what smells good

By Janelle Shane On March 06, 2020 - 4 min read

Last week I trained a neural net on 1000 candles [https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/what-would-a-candle-inspired-by-your-book-smell] , and soon it was producing scents like Frozen Styrofoam, Volcanoes Comfort, Lemon Lime Decay, and Friendly Wetsuit. We have to just imagine what these would smell like (or in some cases, try not to

Smells like the future

By Janelle Shane On February 28, 2020 - 2 min read

“What would a candle inspired by your book smell like?” This was a question that was going around the other day, and most authors got to answer with something nice. My book [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoulooklikeathing.com&t=ZTZkNThhMDM2MDM5M2Y4MDcwZjI3M2RlN2QxNjQ4MDBlYWQ5NTA5NiwxZmZhMGIxY2QwMzMzMjNkNmY3ZGEzYmE3YjkzMTdmMmRhMmVjOWVk] , however… let’s just

This is not cozy: AI attempts the Great British Bakeoff

How to change a giraffe into a bird

Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

This neural net knows what smells good

Smells like the future

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