AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

[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
Your new XFL football teams

Your new XFL football teams

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

Fun with a fake news generator

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
Tasty British snacks

Tasty British snacks

The other day this happened [https://twitter.com/gillianmsmith/status/1157620386101489664?s=20]: I took it as a challenge. After all, a neural net prompted with existing cookie recipes managed to invent [https://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] Hand Buttersacks, Apricot Dream Moles, Grandma’s Spritches, and Walps. I used
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