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By Janelle Shane On February 07, 2019 - 2 min read

A new paper from NVIDIA recently made waves with its photorealistic human portraits. Called StyleGAN [https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan], the algorithm had a new training dataset pulled from Flickr, with a wider range of ages and skin tones than in other portrait datasets. (If your pictures are on Flickr

What do neural nets dream of?

By Janelle Shane On February 01, 2019 - 4 min read

Dreams are really weird, when you think about them. Let’s lie still for several hours and maybe vividly hallucinate? A lot of what people call AI these days are algorithms called artificial neural networks, a type of algorithm that’s modeled after the human brain. They have some things

Welcome to Latent Space

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2019 - 3 min read

I’ve written before about BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan], an image-generating neural net that Google trained recently. It generates its best images for each of the 1,000 different categories [https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a] in the standard ImageNet dataset, from goldfish to planetarium to toilet

What the machines will debate when the humans are gone

By Janelle Shane On January 18, 2019 - 2 min read

In 2018, IBM introduced “IBM Debater, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/technology/ibm-debater-artificial-intelligence.html] ” a machine learning algorithm whose goal was to argue with humans. Rather than a free-for-all argument (which the AI would win using the same techniques as a tireless two-year-old [https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/

Training an AI assistant

By Janelle Shane On January 11, 2019 - 3 min read

There’s an adorable game called Lab Assistant [https://lizfiacco.itch.io/lab-assistant], in which you get to train a machine learning algorithm to obey your commands. Sadly, the commands don’t include “make me a sundae” or “wield this sword of justice”, but it turns out you can learn

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