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Tag: april fools

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A sketch of a computer desktop with a clown for a background and an error window saying you have been pranked

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

I've tried various [https://www.aiweirdness.com/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-18-03-28/] methods [https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank-20-04-01/] of using AI to generate April Fools pranks for you to play on other people (although often they turned out to be pranks you play on yourself [https://www.aiweirdness.com/pranks-you-can-do-at-home/]). But this
An AI's idea of a prank

An AI's idea of a prank

If you’re a longtime reader of my blog, you’ll know that AIs are consistently terrible at humor. Whether it’s a very simple neural net learning to tell knock-knock jokes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or a more-sophisticated algorithm trained on tens of thousands of short jokes
April Fool’s pranks written by neural network

April Fool’s pranks written by neural network

On April 1, people play pranks on one another, and a well-designed hilarious-but-harmless prank is a true work of art. There are lists of pranks online for inspiration, but there are only so many of these, and what do you do if your target has already read the same lists?
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