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Neural net names effects pedals

By Janelle Shane On May 30, 2019 - 3 min read

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

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

By Janelle Shane On May 23, 2019 - 2 min read

One of my favorite things is to get a neural net to generate a list of things. And one of the best neural nets to subject to that task is GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet], which learned a heck of a lot of things (okay not all of

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

By Janelle Shane On May 16, 2019 - 4 min read

So the other day I heard from Change.org [http://change.org], a company that lets anyone make an online petition and gather signatures. In over a decade of existence, they’ve hosted about 5 million unique petitions. Some of the petitions are VERY unique - like the ongoing petition

What is the opposite of guacamole?

By Janelle Shane On May 10, 2019 - 3 min read

Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space]. Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app [http://ganbreeder.app] interface, I’m able to see what BigGAN can generate

A neural net names racehorses

By Janelle Shane On May 03, 2019 - 2 min read

I’ve used neural networks to name all kinds of things - halloween costumes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/179461774272/its-neural-net-halloween-costume-time] , craft beers [http://aiweirdness.com/post/166075083502/trendy-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] , cats [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], and even guinea pigs [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162263942282/more-neural-network-guinea-pig-names]. The weirder the starting set

Neural net names effects pedals

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

What is the opposite of guacamole?

A neural net names racehorses

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