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Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

By Janelle Shane On October 01, 2021 - 4 min read

There's this baking competition I really like, and one of the elements in every show is what they call the Technical Challenge. In the Technical Challenge, Great British Bakeoff contestants have to bake something they may never have seen before, based solely on a brief description and a

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

By Janelle Shane On May 04, 2020 - 4 min read

I’m not sure what was more unsettling: my recent failed attempt to train a neural net called StyleGAN2 to generate screenshots from The Great British Bakeoff [https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british] , or my successful attempt to train StyleGAN2 to generate pictures of my cat [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

This is not cozy: AI attempts the Great British Bakeoff

By Janelle Shane On March 27, 2020 - 5 min read

I’m a big fan of comforting TV, and one of my go-tos is the Great British Bakeoff. It’s the cheerful clarinet-filled soundtrack, the low-stakes baking-centric tension, and the general good-natured kindness of the bakers to one another. What better way to spread cheer and baked deliciousness than to

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

By Janelle Shane On December 06, 2019 - 6 min read

I wrote earlier [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187645450357/dungeon-crawling-or-lucid-dreaming] about a neural net-powered dungeon crawling text adventure game called GPT-2-Adventure [https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure] in which gameplay is incoherent and dreamlike, as you encounter slippery sign text, circular passages, and unexpected lozenge rooms [https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual/

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Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

This is not cozy: AI attempts the Great British Bakeoff

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

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