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The Baltimore Orioles Effect

By Janelle Shane On May 12, 2022 - 4 min read

Back when the text-generating neural network GPT-2 was released, OpenAI released it in stages, in part for fear that people might use the more advanced models to generate misinformation. Now in 2022 we do indeed have people passing off AI-written text as human, but rather than being divisive, it’s

Fancy golf course sign reading "BOVDVTRGHASSA CAINWGS CE/CTGS The GOLF Golf Course"

Be not afraid of these perfectly normal golf courses

By Janelle Shane On March 06, 2022 - 3 min read

What would an AI who's never seen or heard of golf courses do when shown a list of real golf course names and challenged to generate more? When Jeff Kissel sent me 15,626 existing golf course names from the National Course Rating Database [https://ncrdb.usga.org/

Rhyming is hard

By Janelle Shane On May 26, 2020 - 3 min read

Although many people have generated AI [https://twitter.com/ConceptNetPoet] poetry [https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/exhibitions/house-of-dust] and lyrics [https://qz.com/920091/a-west-virginia-teen-taught-himself-how-to-build-a-rapping-ai-using-kanye-west-lyrics/] , you’ll notice that they generally don’t rhyme. That’s because generating a decent rhyme is super hard. You can get an inkling of

Escape rooms

By Janelle Shane On May 16, 2020 - 3 min read

Now that so many of us are spending so much time in our own homes, the thought of being stuck in a room is very much on our minds. If you’ve ever done an escape room, you know that you can pay to be stuck in a room -

An AI's idea of a prank

By Janelle Shane On April 01, 2020 - 2 min read

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

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

Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2020 - 2 min read

In the course of running a blog where I train neural nets to imitate human things, I have the fun of sometimes being introduced to things that I didn’t know very much about. Like knitting [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] . Or crochet [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187489831262/first-there-was-skyknit-now-theres-hat3000]

This neural net knows what smells good

By Janelle Shane On March 06, 2020 - 4 min read

Last week I trained a neural net on 1000 candles [https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/what-would-a-candle-inspired-by-your-book-smell] , and soon it was producing scents like Frozen Styrofoam, Volcanoes Comfort, Lemon Lime Decay, and Friendly Wetsuit. We have to just imagine what these would smell like (or in some cases, try not to

Smells like the future

By Janelle Shane On February 28, 2020 - 2 min read

“What would a candle inspired by your book smell like?” This was a question that was going around the other day, and most authors got to answer with something nice. My book [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoulooklikeathing.com&t=ZTZkNThhMDM2MDM5M2Y4MDcwZjI3M2RlN2QxNjQ4MDBlYWQ5NTA5NiwxZmZhMGIxY2QwMzMzMjNkNmY3ZGEzYmE3YjkzMTdmMmRhMmVjOWVk] , however… let’s just

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

By Janelle Shane On February 08, 2020 - 4 min read

A week ago, in a sudden fit of terrible judgement [https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2nUqA3O], I decided to find out what would happen if I: 1. Asked people to help me collect examples of the worst, the weirdest, the most gelatinous recipes that vintage American cooking has to offer, then 2.

Tag: gpt-2

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

Be not afraid of these perfectly normal golf courses

Rhyming is hard

Escape rooms

An AI's idea of a prank

How to change a giraffe into a bird

Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

This neural net knows what smells good

Smells like the future

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

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