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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

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]

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