Janelle Shane

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 time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

By Janelle Shane On February 14, 2020 - 3 min read

I’ve trained neural networks to generate candy hearts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] before, and the process goes something like this: 1. collect as many existing candy heart messages as I can (which was 366) 2. give them to a clueless neural net that tries to imitate them

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

By Janelle Shane On February 08, 2020 - 4 min read

A week ago, in a sudden fit of terrible judgement [https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2nUqA3O], I decided to find out what would happen if I: 1. Asked people to help me collect examples of the worst, the weirdest, the most gelatinous recipes that vintage American cooking has to offer, then 2.

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

By Janelle Shane On January 31, 2020 - 3 min read

Pictured above is an abomination in the making, a lesson in why humans should never trust what a neural net says just because it’s based on math. It’s a neural net generated brownie recipe called Chocolate Baked and Serves [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159176882762/in-which-the-neural-network-gets-bored-halfway] , and its distinguishing

Depth of field fails

By Janelle Shane On January 24, 2020 - 4 min read

You might think of AI as a thing that only runs on powerful cloud computing servers, but these days you’ll also find it in your phone. Unlike the AI in science fiction, the AI in your phone is limited to just one task at a time - predicting the

Smells like the future

This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

Depth of field fails

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