Janelle Shane

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

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

By Janelle Shane On September 04, 2019 - 6 min read

[Chunky Hat”, crocheted by Joannastar] A while ago, I tried to train a neural network to generate knitting patterns by showing it a few thousand existing patterns so it could use trial and error to generate new patterns. I called the project SkyKnit [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] , and

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

By Janelle Shane On August 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I’ve done several experiments with GPT-2, a neural net that OpenAI trained on millions of pages from the internet. OpenAI has been releasing the neural net in stages, with the second-biggest model, 774M, just recently released. I decided to put it through its paces. Last week’s experiment, where

Your new XFL football teams

By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2019 - 2 min read

The XFL is a strange thing - an alternative American football league led by the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment where the regular football rules are altered for maximum entertainment value. On Wednesday, the XFL revealed the names and logos of the 20 teams that the league had created for

Fun with a fake news generator

By Janelle Shane On August 15, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that algorithms like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], BERT, and GROVER have trained on a big chunk of the internet and are powerful enough to hold a train of thought for more than a sentence or two, people are worried that it might become easy to generate

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

Your new XFL football teams

Fun with a fake news generator

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