Janelle Shane

College courses of the future, courtesy of a neural network

By Janelle Shane On September 21, 2018 - 3 min read

There are a lot of strange courses that make it into a college course catalog. What would artificial intelligence make of them? I train machine learning programs called neural networks to try to imitate human things - human things they are absolutely are not prepared to understand. I’ve trained

Neopets foods might as well be the product of artificial intelligence

By Janelle Shane On September 14, 2018 - 2 min read

Remember Neopets [http://www.neopets.com/]? It’s an online game where you can raise virtual pets that can grow, train, and battle one another in a virtual arena. Although I’ve never played it, people keep mentioning Neopets to me because apparently Neopets has very weird foods. I found

Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

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

It’s apple season in the northern hemisphere! If you’re lucky enough to live in an apple-growing region, you may even be able to get ahold of heirloom apples. These older varieties have fallen out of favor, sometimes because their tree wasn’t robust enough, or they didn’t

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

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

The names of American shopping malls are a carefully calculated combination of bland and grandiose. Even the plainest of strip malls will have a faded sign somewhere proclaiming it to be the “Westbrook Manor Shoppes at Town Center Mall” or something of that nature. What happens if a machine learning

Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot?

By Janelle Shane On August 23, 2018 - 2 min read

There’s a high school robotics contest called FIRST Robotics [https://www.firstinspires.org/] where thousands of student teams compete to build and program huge robots to compete in robots sports. Each team (in addition to, y’know, building the actual robot) has to pick a name and develop their

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.

By Janelle Shane On August 17, 2018 - 3 min read

There was a paper [https://github.com/taoxugit/AttnGAN/] recently where a research team trained a machine learning algorithm (a GAN they called AttnGAN [https://github.com/taoxugit/AttnGAN/]) to generate pictures based on written descriptions. It’s like Visual Chatbot [http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot] in reverse. When

College courses of the future, courtesy of a neural network

Neopets foods might as well be the product of artificial intelligence

Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot?

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.

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