Janelle Shane

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

By Janelle Shane On October 14, 2019 - 4 min read

In my opinion, one of the best applications of neural networks is for generating Halloween costumes. Thanks to a dataset of over 7,100 costumes crowdsourced from readers of this blog, I’ve been able to generate Halloween costumes with progressively more powerful neural networks. In 2017, I used char-rnn

A.I. versus confusing goose game

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Untitled Goose Game [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fgoose.game%2F&t=OGJmMGVkMjNlMWE1YjQxMTVhZTNhOTRjOTM2ZjE2NWZhNDQ2ZDM5Yyw4NmFjMTNiNjUxOGMwMDZjYzc3MjE2NjA5NjBhOGJjYmIyNjVkNjdk] , in which you play as a horrible goose that wreaks various forms of mischief on some mild-mannered villagers. You have a to-do list of mayhem such as:

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 26, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Inktober [https://inktober.com/] where people post one drawing for every day in October. To help inspire people, the people behind Inktober post an official list of daily prompts, a word or phrase like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. There’s no requirement to use

A neural net names mushrooms

By Janelle Shane On September 19, 2019 - 2 min read

When neural nets try to name things, the results can be indisputably weird. Every once in a while, I come across an arena where the human-invented names are every bit as strange as those a neural net can come up with. Often, scientists are to blame. Species of bird [https:

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

By Janelle Shane On September 11, 2019 - 7 min read

I’ve done several experiments with a text-generating neural network called GPT-2. Trained at great expense by OpenAI (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars worth of computing power), GPT-2 learned to imitate all kinds of text from the internet. I’ve interacted with the basic model, discovering

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

A.I. versus confusing goose game

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

A neural net names mushrooms

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

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