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AI imagines my cat in costumes

By Janelle Shane On October 28, 2022 - 4 min read

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that. But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

By Janelle Shane On May 04, 2020 - 4 min read

I’m not sure what was more unsettling: my recent failed attempt to train a neural net called StyleGAN2 to generate screenshots from The Great British Bakeoff [https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british] , or my successful attempt to train StyleGAN2 to generate pictures of my cat [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

Trained a neural net on my cat and regret everything

By Janelle Shane On April 17, 2020 - 3 min read

Recently I had my first-ever experiment with training a neural net to generate images, when I trained StyleGAN2 to generate screenshots from The Great British Bakeoff [https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british] . Although recognizable as the baking show, it was a highly distorted, nightmarish version - it would have helped

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

By Janelle Shane On June 03, 2019 - 3 min read

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens [https://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations

GANCats

By Janelle Shane On February 07, 2019 - 2 min read

A new paper from NVIDIA recently made waves with its photorealistic human portraits. Called StyleGAN [https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan], the algorithm had a new training dataset pulled from Flickr, with a wider range of ages and skin tones than in other portrait datasets. (If your pictures are on Flickr

Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

By Janelle Shane On June 29, 2017 - 5 min read

It was inevitable that the neural network, having named all kinds of internet datasets, should turn its talents to naming cats. And what an occasion! The AFK Cat Rescue [https://www.facebook.com/AFKCat/] of Huntsville, Alabama contacted me because they had an exceptionally adorable bunch of kittens (plus one

Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats

By Janelle Shane On May 19, 2017 - 2 min read

robotlaughs [https://robotlaughs.tumblr.com/post/160785806733/fun-with-a-neural-net-that-transforms-line] : > lewisandquark [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/159654519362/fun-with-a-neural-net-that-transforms-line] : > So there’s a neural network framework called pix2pix [https://github.com/phillipi/pix2pix] that can be trained to learn how to transform one type of image into another. It’s been

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AI imagines my cat in costumes

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

Trained a neural net on my cat and regret everything

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

GANCats

Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats

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