gpt-3 - AI Weirdness (Page 2)

drawing of a clam with a spiked shell, about the same size as a silhouetted scuba diver

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

By Janelle Shane On April 29, 2022 - 3 min read

"The Megalodon was a large bivalve, measuring up to 2.5 meters in length. Its shell was covered in spines, and it had a large, powerful jaw for crushing prey." Although the megalodon is the most widely known as a giant prehistoric shark, I recently learned that Megalodon

A sketch of a computer desktop with a clown for a background and an error window saying you have been pranked

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2022 - 4 min read

I've tried various [https://www.aiweirdness.com/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-18-03-28/] methods [https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank-20-04-01/] of using AI to generate April Fools pranks for you to play on other people (although often they turned out to be pranks you play on yourself [https://www.aiweirdness.com/pranks-you-can-do-at-home/]). But this

Magical Utopia - We've got a wizard living in the shed, who occasionally comes out to do magic and eat cheese sandwiches.

AI-generated utopias

By Janelle Shane On March 18, 2022 - 3 min read

AI isn't known for being able to solve the big problems, but what about the VERY large problems, such as possible futures to strive for? I decided to find out if I could get GPT-3 to come up with new ideas for utopias. Since GPT-3 works by predicting

AI-generated valentine cards including "Valentine is super sexy!" (Image of a chickpea)

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

By Janelle Shane On February 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I remember having to give out Valentine cards in elementary school, a mandatory expression of not-actual-valentine-feeling in which you could express your individuality and warm regard for your best friends and the classroom bully by giving them small store-bought cards with cartoon characters and generic messages on them. But what

Paint swatches including Hog Wash, Light Persuasion, Lucky Chalk, Indecent Taupe, Classy Comma, Harrold's Koala, and Blarg

New AI paint colors

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

One of my first [https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17/] experiments [https://www.aiweirdness.com/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-17-05-23/] with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors. I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or

Cereal boxes: Orb Crumpets, Foam Squares, and Non-stick Carbonated Waffle Balls

New breakfast cereals from AI

By Janelle Shane On January 21, 2022 - 2 min read

The thing about working with a giant language model like GPT-3 is it has read parts of the internet that it never occurred to me might exist. Like press releases from breakfast cereal companies, articles about press releases from breakfast cereal companies, blogs by breakfast cereal enthusiasts, and probably every

My Resolution: Take photos of each of my toes daily.

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

By Janelle Shane On December 30, 2021 - 7 min read

This month I'm beginning 2022 as the first Futurist in Residence at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. It's weird to think of myself as a futurist. I write a lot about the algorithms we're calling artificial intelligence (AI), but rather than deal with

Christmas entities

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2021 - 2 min read

When you think about it, Christmas can get pretty weird. There's the classic Christmas story of the Bible, and then there are all these extra entities that aren't in the book but which become somehow part of Christmas. And some of them are quite unsettling. There&

2022: French stick - Artisanally crafted, wooden, low-fat stick, thin enough to fit in a toaster.

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2021 - 2 min read

Few could have predicted that the must-have toy of 1998 would be an owl-like bilingual hamster doll with infrared sensors, or that in 1975 kids would be begging their parents for a toy that is literally a single rock in a cardboard box. But could AI have predicted it? Could

A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 2 min read

When I was a kid I looked forward to opening advent calendar doors in December, although the pictures behind the doors were pretty forgettable. A bell. A snowflake. If you were lucky, a squirrel. So I thought I'd see if I can generate something a bit more interesting,

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How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

AI-generated utopias

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

New AI paint colors

New breakfast cereals from AI

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

Christmas entities

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

An AI advent calendar

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