Janelle Shane

How to begin a song

By Janelle Shane On November 30, 2018 - 4 min read

So a while ago I made my first Twitter [https://twitter.com/BotSingalong]/ Mastodon [https://botsin.space/@singalongbot] bot, a very simple little bot called TheSingalongBot [https://twitter.com/BotSingalong]. It came out of a chance conversation at the XOXO conference with Kate Compton and Gretchen McCulloch, and all it

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2018 - 2 min read

A while ago I made a bunch of new pies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/167736100922/a-neural-network-invents-some-pies]. Well, I didn’t *make* them because they were neural network invented titles and although it tried to imitate the list of pies I gave it, the neural net’s imitations are imperfect. The

A neural network will write your D&D character bio

By Janelle Shane On November 16, 2018 - 6 min read

Thanks to the wonderful readers of this blog, I’ve been able to apply machine learning to Dungeons and Dragons data of all sorts. I trained a neural network to generate new D&D spells, first on a small dataset [http://aiweirdness.com/post/159363915392/new-dd-magic-spells-designed-by-neural-network] , then on a

CNN headlines, according to a neural net

By Janelle Shane On November 09, 2018 - 3 min read

The world is a chaotic and confusing place. Could advanced artificial intelligence help us make sense of it? Well, possibly, except that today’s “artificial intelligences” are not exactly what you’d call sophisticated. With a couple of hundred virtual neurons (as opposed to 16 billion neurons in the human

The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

By Janelle Shane On October 31, 2018 - 3 min read

Writing to you from deep inside the Uncanny Valley, I present to you some hand-selected images generated by an algorithm called BigGAN [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096]. This algorithm looks at example images of a bunch of different objects and then tries its best to figure out how to

How to begin a song

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

A neural network will write your D&D character bio

CNN headlines, according to a neural net

The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

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