AI Weirdness (Page 34)

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

By Janelle Shane On August 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I’ve done several experiments with GPT-2, a neural net that OpenAI trained on millions of pages from the internet. OpenAI has been releasing the neural net in stages, with the second-biggest model, 774M, just recently released. I decided to put it through its paces. Last week’s experiment, where

Your new XFL football teams

By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2019 - 2 min read

The XFL is a strange thing - an alternative American football league led by the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment where the regular football rules are altered for maximum entertainment value. On Wednesday, the XFL revealed the names and logos of the 20 teams that the league had created for

Fun with a fake news generator

By Janelle Shane On August 15, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that algorithms like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], BERT, and GROVER have trained on a big chunk of the internet and are powerful enough to hold a train of thought for more than a sentence or two, people are worried that it might become easy to generate

Tasty British snacks

By Janelle Shane On August 08, 2019 - 3 min read

The other day this happened [https://twitter.com/gillianmsmith/status/1157620386101489664?s=20]: I took it as a challenge. After all, a neural net prompted with existing cookie recipes managed to invent [https://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] Hand Buttersacks, Apricot Dream Moles, Grandma’s Spritches, and Walps. I used

An AI Weirdness book!!!

By Janelle Shane On July 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I am really really excited to announce a thing I’ve been working on for more than a year now: there’s going to be an AI Weirdness book!!!!! You can preorder it at these links: Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316525243?tag=hacboogrosit-20] - Barnes & Noble

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

Your new XFL football teams

Fun with a fake news generator

Tasty British snacks

An AI Weirdness book!!!

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