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By Janelle Shane On March 21, 2019 - 1 min read

H.M.S. Neural Net One of my favorite things to do with machine learning algorithms is to get them to name things. Give a neural network (a type of machine learning algorithm) enough examples, and it will do an often decent (sometimes howlingly bad) imitation of their letter combinations

D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2019 - 7 min read

I like training neural networks to generate Dungeons and Dragons stuff because, well, the results are really really weird. To date I’ve generated spells [http://aiweirdness.com/post/165373096197/a-neural-network-learns-to-create-better-dd] , creatures [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172170729017/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by] , and character names [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173546448332/dd-character-names-generated-by-a-neural] , thanks to readers

It takes a bot to know one?

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

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about GPT-2 [http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet], a text-generating algorithm whose huge size and long-term analysis abilities mean that it can generate text with an impressive degree of coherence. So impressive, in fact, that its programmers at OpenAI have only released a

How a neural net makes cookies

By Janelle Shane On March 01, 2019 - 3 min read

The other day I trained a neural net to generate the names of cookies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] , based on about 1,000 existing recipes. The resulting names (Quitterbread Bars, Hand Buttersacks, Low Fuzzy Feats, and more) were both delightfully weird and strangely plausible. People even invented delicious

A neural net designed some comics for you

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

It is quite fitting that the idea to train a neural net to generate comics names came from the creator of a webcomic about a hapless AI robot [http://LABScomic.com]. Aaron Uglum collected 1,417 names of newspaper comics from Wikipedia, and I gave them to textgenrnn to see

GPT-2: It learned on the Internet

By Janelle Shane On February 15, 2019 - 6 min read

> Prompt: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to Response: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to Africa that is powerfully seductive. In the songs of Barry Sequson, Harry Holness and Alan Emerson the black-capped chickadee competes with others—and climbs on top of each other

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D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

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GPT-2: It learned on the Internet

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