AI Weirdness (Page 35)

The world through the eyes of a neural net

By Janelle Shane On July 25, 2019 - 3 min read

What would happen if I fed a video to an AI that turns images into blobs of labeled objects, and then fed THAT video to another AI that attempts to reconstruct the original picture from those labeled blobs? I used runwayml [https://runwayml.com]’s new chaining feature to tie

The future of sparkling water

By Janelle Shane On July 17, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that it’s summer, I’m inhaling flavored seltzers - you know, the carbonated waters that taste as if you’re drinking plain water while someone gently mists your face with mango juice. My favorite flavor is pink grapefruit, but I’m always a sucker for trying new flavors.

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

By Janelle Shane On July 12, 2019 - 2 min read

What would it look like if, in the distant future, a group of machine intelligences tried to make tea? Not just to brew tea, but to recreate the entire concept from long-forgotten synapses buried deep within the hidden layers of their virtual brains? To see what that might be like,

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 05, 2019 - 3 min read

People send me the weirdest ideas. I knew that fruit flies are a mainstay of research labs, but I had never given them much thought until Prof. Greg Neely [https://www.neelylab.com/] emailed me to point out how weird the names of mutant fruit flies are. There’s a

AIs named by AIs

By Janelle Shane On June 27, 2019 - 3 min read

Neural networks can be good at naming things, I’ve discovered. Recently I’ve been experimenting with a neural network called GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which OpenAI trained on a huge chunk of the internet. Thanks to a colab notebook implementation by Max Woolf [https://github.com/

The world through the eyes of a neural net

The future of sparkling water

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

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