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Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2022 - 5 min read

It seems like it's every couple of months that a big tech company releases a language model that's supposed to do amazing things. The Allen Institute for AI's Delphi [https://https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/] , whose authors said it "demonstrates strong promise of

What to do with your time

By Janelle Shane On November 13, 2020 - 2 min read

In Leonardo DaVinci’s diary you can find his to-do lists [https://jrbenjamin.com/2018/01/05/da-vincis-to-do-lists/], the kinds of broad-ranging investigations the famous polymath would use to occupy his time: > Draw Milan. Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle Ask Giannino

All your questions answered

By Janelle Shane On June 17, 2020 - 5 min read

I’m previewing OpenAI’s new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] and like GPT-2, it looked at a lot of internet text during training. In my last post [https://aiweirdness.com/post/620645957819875328/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-good] I showed how it can adapt to different prompts in part because of how much it’

How to change a giraffe into a bird

By Janelle Shane On March 20, 2020 - 3 min read

When people study the ways that AI generates and detects images, they have to use something as a test problem. Delightfully, a recent paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03637] decided to train an AI to transform pictures of giraffes into pictures of birds. Why? Apparently, just to see if

Depth of field fails

By Janelle Shane On January 24, 2020 - 4 min read

You might think of AI as a thing that only runs on powerful cloud computing servers, but these days you’ll also find it in your phone. Unlike the AI in science fiction, the AI in your phone is limited to just one task at a time - predicting the

I trained a neural net on my own book

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2019 - 2 min read

I spent the last two years writing a book on AI [https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing]. It’s called You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, and today it’s finally out! And since training neural nets on things is a large percentage of my blog, of course

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.

By Janelle Shane On August 17, 2018 - 3 min read

There was a paper [https://github.com/taoxugit/AttnGAN/] recently where a research team trained a machine learning algorithm (a GAN they called AttnGAN [https://github.com/taoxugit/AttnGAN/]) to generate pictures based on written descriptions. It’s like Visual Chatbot [http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot] in reverse. When

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Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up

What to do with your time

All your questions answered

How to change a giraffe into a bird

Depth of field fails

I trained a neural net on my own book

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.

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