Janelle Shane

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

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

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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

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