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High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2020 - 3 min read

I’ve used neural networks to generate Halloween costumes in the past, but the early ones struggled with their complete lack of context for the training data. Why is Statue of Liberty a plausible costume yet Statue of Pizza isn’t [https://aiweirdness.com/post/166814009412/a-neural-network-designs-halloween-costumes] ? Those neural networks,

What color are you?

By Janelle Shane On October 09, 2020 - 2 min read

I’ve been having fun using GPT-3 to generate weird versions of internet memes. Even if it’s a meme that didn’t exist when GPT-3’s training data was collected from the internet (which was October 2019 for the version I’m using), most memes will fit within its

This blog is not a blog of honor

By Janelle Shane On September 28, 2020 - 4 min read

Last time I used GPT-3 to suggest forbidding landscapes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/629516384194461697/a-10000-year-warning] that would repel future civilizations from our nuclear waste disposal sites. There’s something about taking a subject that’s very very permanent - some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for over 250,000

A 10,000 year warning

By Janelle Shane On September 17, 2020 - 4 min read

It isn’t every project that requires people to make plans for thousands or millions of years in the future. But some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for over 250,000 years [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/] , probably outliving all existing civilizations, languages, and possibly even humanity itself.

AI supervillains

By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2020 - 2 min read

Earlier, I did the rather unsettlingly meta exercise of using a new neural net, GPT-3, to generate hypothetical AI Weirdness blog posts. [https://aiweirdness.com/post/626712039215202304/ai-ai-weirdness] One of the tricks I can do with this: GPT-3 can play along with an opening in which I declare that I’

The story behind AI drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 02, 2020 - 3 min read

Introducing #Botober, a set of AI-generated drawing prompts for each day in October! Last year I generated prompts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187962817292/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-prompts] by finetuning GPT-2 on 124 examples from previous years. The human-written training examples included items like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. The neural net-generated examples included

Planet Earth From Above

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

Melbourne, Australia: home of kangaroos, botanical gardens, and a surreal monolith, jutting impossibly tall and narrow above its unassuming neighbors. [images from a video by reddit user fulltimespy [https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ieccxk/melbournes_200_storey_tower_landing_challenge/] , in a successful completion of the Monolith Challenge]

AI AI Weirdness

By Janelle Shane On August 17, 2020 - 4 min read

Now that GPT-3 is capable of writing entire personality quizzes (sort of [https://aiweirdness.com/post/625169439532482560/which-ai-generated-personality-quiz-are-you] ), could it write an entire blog post for me? I prompted GPT-3 with “Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today’s blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural

My Name is Bot

By Janelle Shane On August 10, 2020 - 4 min read

Text-generating neural networks can do a lot more now than they used to. When I first started generating things with neural networks, sentences and even simple phrases were mostly beyond them (that didn’t stop me from trying, with hilariously inept results [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159302925452/the-neural-network-generated-pickup-lines-that-are] ). But now

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

By Janelle Shane On July 31, 2020 - 2 min read

What would you do with more memory? Clearly, play more complex games. One difference between OpenAI’s new text generator (known as GPT-3) [https://aiweirdness.com/post/623543644426829825/facts-about-whales] and the other neural networks I’ve used in the past is that it now looks at much more text when

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What color are you?

This blog is not a blog of honor

A 10,000 year warning

AI supervillains

The story behind AI drawing prompts

Planet Earth From Above

AI AI Weirdness

My Name is Bot

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

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