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More candy hearts by neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 12, 2018 - 2 min read

Last week I trained a neural network to generate new messages for candy hearts. [http://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] They were, well, unique. My training data was really small, though - I could only find about 360 existing messages total. So, when I decided to generate some more messages,

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 09, 2018 - 2 min read

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE

New insect species, dreamed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 01, 2018 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a kind of machine learning program that imitate the way the human brain learns. They learn by example, rather than by being given rules by a human programmer. And because they can get very, very good at what they do, neural networks are now the algorithms that

You are Wrong about Music, according to this neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2018 - 1 min read

I train computer programs called neural networks, which look at datasets of human things and try to copy them. They’re used for all sorts of important real-life applications, running Facebook’s facial recognition and Google’s language translation, among many, many other things. I am running the same sort

New bills introduced by neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 18, 2018 - 2 min read

Between 2009 and 2017, approximately 18,458 unique bills were introduced to the legislature of Massachusetts (out of 33,201 total). I know this because Dru Tarr [https://twitter.com/DruTarr], a legislative aide at the Massachusetts House of Representatives, very kindly compiled the publicly available list of bills [https:

Thesis titles generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 11, 2018 - 4 min read

Ever notice that sometimes the neural networks on this blog do a better job of imitating weird datasets than at other times? Here are two major things that affect how convincing a neural network version will be: 1. Amount of data vs complexity of the problem 2. How easy the

Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 04, 2018 - 2 min read

Wikipedia has a page where they list [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deleted_articles_with_freaky_titles], for entertainment purposes, the titles of a bunch of pages that didn’t meet the cut. These are mostly pages that were submitted as pranks, although a few of them are clever

Ten new applications for neural networks

By Janelle Shane On December 28, 2017 - 3 min read

Neural networks are machine learning algorithms that are very good at solving tough problems - they’re used for language translation, facial recognition, and financial management. I, however, have been training them on silly datasets. Here are some of my favorite experiments from the last year. Naming guinea pigs [http:

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On December 20, 2017 - 4 min read

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems. They’re used for face recognition, self-driving cars, language translation, financial decisions, and more. I mainly use them to write humor. My process starts with a dataset - something that the neural

When A.I. gets into birding

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2017 - 4 min read

[Bird illustrations by the talented Carin Powell (10000badframes.tumblr.com [http://10000badframes.tumblr.com] http://carinpowell.wixsite.com/sheanimates)] I train computer programs called neural networks to imitate datasets of human things. Basically, I give the neural network a long list of things like band names [http://aiweirdness.com/post/

More candy hearts by neural network

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

New insect species, dreamed by neural network

You are Wrong about Music, according to this neural network

New bills introduced by neural network

Thesis titles generated by neural network

Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

Ten new applications for neural networks

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

When A.I. gets into birding

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