Janelle Shane

Robo-Lingthusiasm

By Janelle Shane On January 17, 2020 - 4 min read

lingthusiasm [https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn] : Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle ShaneIf you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these things for

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By Janelle Shane On January 17, 2020 - 4 min read

lingthusiasm [https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn] : Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane > If you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these

AI Weirdness in 2019

By Janelle Shane On January 09, 2020 - 3 min read

Here’s a look back at a few of my favorite projects from 2019! 1. My book, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You I published my first book, a pop science look at how artificial intelligence works and why it’s making the world a weirder place.

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

By Janelle Shane On December 31, 2019 - 3 min read

How far has AI come in a year? In 2018 I generated cocktails [https://aiweirdness.com/post/181110592232/dont-let-a-neural-net-mix-drinks] using textgenrnn [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] and char-rnn [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], two neural networks that learn to imitate text. I trained them on 1000 cocktails that Beth Skwarecki

The AI's Carol

By Janelle Shane On December 24, 2019 - 4 min read

In 2017 I decided to find out what would happen if I trained a neural net on 240 Christmas carols (collected by The Times of London and reader/neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson). The result? A neural net that was very confused about how Christmas works [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

By Janelle Shane On December 06, 2019 - 6 min read

I wrote earlier [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187645450357/dungeon-crawling-or-lucid-dreaming] about a neural net-powered dungeon crawling text adventure game called GPT-2-Adventure [https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure] in which gameplay is incoherent and dreamlike, as you encounter slippery sign text, circular passages, and unexpected lozenge rooms [https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual/

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AI Weirdness in 2019

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

The AI's Carol

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

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