AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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AIs named by AIs

AIs named by AIs

Neural networks can be good at naming things, I’ve discovered. Recently I’ve been experimenting with a neural network called GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which OpenAI trained on a huge chunk of the internet. Thanks to a colab notebook implementation by Max Woolf [https://github.com/
This neural net knows your secret recipe

This neural net knows your secret recipe

Could you look at a picture of food and write down the recipe? There are people working on trying to train AI to do exactly this. Facebook recently made headway on this tough problem [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/inverse-cooking/] by realizing that there are so many possible recipes that
This neural net makes my sketches real

This neural net makes my sketches real

There’s a kind of neural net that will convert block drawings into its best attempt at a photorealistic scene. Now it’s easier than ever to try them out, without any coding or fancy computing equipment needed. Today I’m going to show you an algorithm developed by Nvidia
Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens [https://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations
Neural net names effects pedals

Neural net names effects pedals

Humans have pushed against the perfections of electronics for years. One of the ways they’ve done this is by designing effects pedals meant to distort the sounds of music. The pedals usually have evocative names (“Morley Emerald Echo”, “Happy Snake Lucifuzz Fuzz”, “Lovepedal Purple Pickle Vibe”). I had never
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