Janelle Shane

AI explains human quirks

By Janelle Shane On September 02, 2022 - 2 min read

Humans are weird. The question is, do AI training datasets capture the full scope of our weirdness? I decided to see if GPT-3 could successfully predict other human quirks when prompted with a short list of them. Here's what I gave GPT-3 DaVinci to complete: > Human things

AI recreates classic cereals

By Janelle Shane On August 12, 2022 - 2 min read

DALL-E 2 is very good at generating images to match text descriptions but I felt like using DALL-E 2 to mess up some brands. Here's breakfast cereals! "A box of lucky charms cereal on a grocery store shelf""A box of Froot Loops on a

A collection of mostly chipmunks, one acorn, and two lumpy froglike things

How to disappear a platypus

By Janelle Shane On August 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I was testing DALL-E 2 to see if it would be subject to some common incorrect assumptions about the sizes of things. For example if you asked people what size a kiwi bird is, they tend to assume it's a smallish bird, maybe around the size of a

Three guinea pig horse toys, stocky with guinea pig faces and guinea pig markings.

New AI-generated horsies

By Janelle Shane On July 22, 2022 - 2 min read

Recently I've been experimenting with DALL-E 2, one of the models that uses CLIP to generate images from my text descriptions. It was trained on internet text and images, so there's a lot it can do, and a lot of ways it can remix the stuff

The Kitten Effect

By Janelle Shane On July 15, 2022 - 3 min read

One thing I've noticed with image-generating algorithms is that the more of something they have to put in an image, the worse it is. I first noticed this with the kitten-generating variant of StyleGAN, which often does okay on one cat: alternative for shocked_pikachu.pngbut is terrible

AI explains human quirks

AI recreates classic cereals

How to disappear a platypus

New AI-generated horsies

The Kitten Effect

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