Janelle Shane

10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018

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

I did one of these for 2017 last year [http://aiweirdness.com/post/169049462997/ten-new-applications-for-neural-networks] , so I thought it would be fun to recap some of my favorite aiweirdness.com experiments from 2018. Sure, financial forecasting, facial recognition, and delivering ads may be the most common uses for machine learning,

A neural net names fireworks

By Janelle Shane On December 27, 2018 - 2 min read

I am always amazed by all the corners of life that have their own naming conventions. What makes a name sound like an heirloom apple [http://aiweirdness.com/post/177838283332/heirloom-apples-youve-never-tried-courtesy-of-ai] , or a cookie [http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] , or a Pokemon [http://iguanamouth.tumblr.com/post/158982472537/pokemon-generated-by-neural-network]

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2018 - 2 min read

This seems to be a year for AI experiments centered around Christmas movies. MIT Technology Review [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/] generated some titles and plot summaries (I would probably watch The Christmas StorK) and Botnik Studios [https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/1074700267046756353] has been using predictive text

Don’t let a neural net mix drinks.

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2018 - 3 min read

So I’ve used neural networks to generate recipes in the past. They’re computer programs that can learn to imitate the data we give them, copying the way that humans drive cars, label images, or translate languages. That is, they try to learn. They’re called “neural” because they

Aw yeah it’s time for cookies with neural networks

By Janelle Shane On December 07, 2018 - 2 min read

So there’s these computer programs called artificial neural networks that are good at imitating things. By seeing examples of what humans did, they can learn to translate languages, predict product sales, and even categorize text and images as innocuous or explicit (it has a lot of trouble with this

10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018

A neural net names fireworks

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

Don’t let a neural net mix drinks.

Aw yeah it’s time for cookies with neural networks

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