gpt-2 - AI Weirdness (Page 3)

A.I. versus confusing goose game

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Untitled Goose Game [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fgoose.game%2F&t=OGJmMGVkMjNlMWE1YjQxMTVhZTNhOTRjOTM2ZjE2NWZhNDQ2ZDM5Yyw4NmFjMTNiNjUxOGMwMDZjYzc3MjE2NjA5NjBhOGJjYmIyNjVkNjdk] , in which you play as a horrible goose that wreaks various forms of mischief on some mild-mannered villagers. You have a to-do list of mayhem such as:

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 26, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Inktober [https://inktober.com/] where people post one drawing for every day in October. To help inspire people, the people behind Inktober post an official list of daily prompts, a word or phrase like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. There’s no requirement to use

A neural net names mushrooms

By Janelle Shane On September 19, 2019 - 2 min read

When neural nets try to name things, the results can be indisputably weird. Every once in a while, I come across an arena where the human-invented names are every bit as strange as those a neural net can come up with. Often, scientists are to blame. Species of bird [https:

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

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

By Janelle Shane On August 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I’ve done several experiments with GPT-2, a neural net that OpenAI trained on millions of pages from the internet. OpenAI has been releasing the neural net in stages, with the second-biggest model, 774M, just recently released. I decided to put it through its paces. Last week’s experiment, where

Your new XFL football teams

By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2019 - 2 min read

The XFL is a strange thing - an alternative American football league led by the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment where the regular football rules are altered for maximum entertainment value. On Wednesday, the XFL revealed the names and logos of the 20 teams that the league had created for

Tasty British snacks

By Janelle Shane On August 08, 2019 - 3 min read

The other day this happened [https://twitter.com/gillianmsmith/status/1157620386101489664?s=20]: I took it as a challenge. After all, a neural net prompted with existing cookie recipes managed to invent [https://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] Hand Buttersacks, Apricot Dream Moles, Grandma’s Spritches, and Walps. I used

The future of sparkling water

By Janelle Shane On July 17, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that it’s summer, I’m inhaling flavored seltzers - you know, the carbonated waters that taste as if you’re drinking plain water while someone gently mists your face with mango juice. My favorite flavor is pink grapefruit, but I’m always a sucker for trying new flavors.

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

By Janelle Shane On July 12, 2019 - 2 min read

What would it look like if, in the distant future, a group of machine intelligences tried to make tea? Not just to brew tea, but to recreate the entire concept from long-forgotten synapses buried deep within the hidden layers of their virtual brains? To see what that might be like,

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 05, 2019 - 3 min read

People send me the weirdest ideas. I knew that fruit flies are a mainstay of research labs, but I had never given them much thought until Prof. Greg Neely [https://www.neelylab.com/] emailed me to point out how weird the names of mutant fruit flies are. There’s a

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A.I. versus confusing goose game

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

A neural net names mushrooms

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

Your new XFL football teams

Tasty British snacks

The future of sparkling water

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

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