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Choose Your Quarantine House

By Janelle Shane On July 23, 2020 - 3 min read

So far one of my favorite uses of OpenAI’s new API [https://beta.openai.com/] (which people are calling GPT-3) is for making absurd memes. One of the memes from March/April 2020 was quarantine houses, where people under sudden covid-19 stay-at-home orders took stock of the skills and

Facts about whales

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2020 - 7 min read

When a neural net can imitate just about any kind of text on the internet, the challenge is to tell it precisely what to imitate. In my last preview of OpenAI’s new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] I asked it some pretty basic questions about horses, and it often

When data is messy

By Janelle Shane On July 03, 2020 - 4 min read

There’s a story I tell in my book [https://youlooklikeathing.com] because it’s a great illustration of how AI gets the wrong idea about what problem we’re asking it to solve: Researchers at the University of Tuebingen trained a neural net to recognize images [https://medium.com/

Depixellation? Or hallucination?

By Janelle Shane On June 26, 2020 - 4 min read

There’s an application for neural nets called “photo upsampling” which is designed to turn a very low-resolution photo into a higher-res one. This is an image from a recent paper demonstrating one of these algorithms, called “PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models [https://github.

All your questions answered

By Janelle Shane On June 17, 2020 - 5 min read

I’m previewing OpenAI’s new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] and like GPT-2, it looked at a lot of internet text during training. In my last post [https://aiweirdness.com/post/620645957819875328/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-good] I showed how it can adapt to different prompts in part because of how much it’

This is the OpenAI API. It makes spookily good twitter bots 13/10 would retweet

By Janelle Shane On June 11, 2020 - 4 min read

As of today, OpenAI is releasing their new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] and I’ve been fortunate enough to have had a chance to preview it. Folks, I’m going to be doing a LOT of posts on this. Like GPT-2, they used internet text as training data, and

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 -

Jukebox of weirdness

By Janelle Shane On May 08, 2020 - 3 min read

Ever wish you could hear what it would have sounded like if jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald had done a cover of Baby Shark? [https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/jazz-in-the-style-of-ella-fitzgerald] So classy, right? How did this happen? A couple of steps: 1. OpenAI trained a new neural net called Jukebox [https:

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/

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Choose Your Quarantine House

Facts about whales

When data is messy

Depixellation? Or hallucination?

All your questions answered

This is the OpenAI API. It makes spookily good twitter bots 13/10 would retweet

Rhyming is hard

Escape rooms

Jukebox of weirdness

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

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