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Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

By Janelle Shane On September 11, 2019 - 7 min read

I’ve done several experiments with a text-generating neural network called GPT-2. Trained at great expense by OpenAI (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars worth of computing power), GPT-2 learned to imitate all kinds of text from the internet. I’ve interacted with the basic model, discovering

D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2019 - 7 min read

I like training neural networks to generate Dungeons and Dragons stuff because, well, the results are really really weird. To date I’ve generated spells [http://aiweirdness.com/post/165373096197/a-neural-network-learns-to-create-better-dd] , creatures [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172170729017/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by] , and character names [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173546448332/dd-character-names-generated-by-a-neural] , thanks to readers

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2018 - 2 min read

A while ago I made a bunch of new pies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/167736100922/a-neural-network-invents-some-pies]. Well, I didn’t *make* them because they were neural network invented titles and although it tried to imitate the list of pies I gave it, the neural net’s imitations are imperfect. The

A neural network will write your D&D character bio

By Janelle Shane On November 16, 2018 - 6 min read

Thanks to the wonderful readers of this blog, I’ve been able to apply machine learning to Dungeons and Dragons data of all sorts. I trained a neural network to generate new D&D spells, first on a small dataset [http://aiweirdness.com/post/159363915392/new-dd-magic-spells-designed-by-neural-network] , then on a

D&D character names - generated by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On May 03, 2018 - 3 min read

There are algorithms called artificial neural networks that can learn to imitate examples of just about anything. They’re used in all sorts of everyday programs, translating languages, identifying photos, colorizing drawings, delivering ads, and tons more. It turns out neural networks may also be a dungeon master’s best

Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On March 23, 2018 - 2 min read

The game Dungeons and Dragons has all sorts of lists of spells and abilities you can use for gameplay. I trained an algorithm called a recurrent neural network [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn] to generate more spells - like Barking Sphere, Hold Mouse, and Gland Growth [http://aiweirdness.com/post/

A neural network learns to create better D&D spells

By Janelle Shane On September 15, 2017 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a type of machine learning program that learns from examples they’re given, rather than relying on a human programmer to invent rules. In an earlier experiment [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/159363915392/new-dd-magic-spells-designed-by-neural-network] , I trained a neural network to write new names for Dungeons and Dragons

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Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

A neural network will write your D&D character bio

D&D character names - generated by a neural network

Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network

A neural network learns to create better D&D spells

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