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I trained a neural net on my own book

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2019 - 2 min read

I spent the last two years writing a book on AI [https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing]. It’s called You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, and today it’s finally out! And since training neural nets on things is a large percentage of my blog, of course

Easy Halloween treats generated by AI

By Janelle Shane On October 31, 2019 - 3 min read

Doing a Halloween party? Need to bring a festive food? Advanced artificial intelligence is here to help. After all, some say that large neural networks like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which trained on huge collections of text from the internet, have therefore absorbed huge amounts of the

My TED talk on AI

By Janelle Shane On October 22, 2019 - 3 min read

Remember a few months ago when I spoke at the 2019 TED conference in April (and kinda used a classic machine learning reward function hack [https://aiweirdness.com/post/184458515782/learning-to-hack-like-a-faulty-ai] on Simone Giertz’s robot workshop)? Well the video is UP! Watch it [https://www.ted.com/talks/janelle_

Things neural networks are saying about my book

By Janelle Shane On October 18, 2019 - 3 min read

Okay so the above reviews have some subtle clues that they might not have been written by real live humans. In fact, they’re the work of a text-generating neural network that OpenAI trained [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf] on millions of Amazon reviews. The color of the

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

By Janelle Shane On October 14, 2019 - 4 min read

In my opinion, one of the best applications of neural networks is for generating Halloween costumes. Thanks to a dataset of over 7,100 costumes crowdsourced from readers of this blog, I’ve been able to generate Halloween costumes with progressively more powerful neural networks. In 2017, I used char-rnn

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

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

By Janelle Shane On September 04, 2019 - 6 min read

[Chunky Hat”, crocheted by Joannastar] A while ago, I tried to train a neural network to generate knitting patterns by showing it a few thousand existing patterns so it could use trial and error to generate new patterns. I called the project SkyKnit [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] , and

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I trained a neural net on my own book

Easy Halloween treats generated by AI

My TED talk on AI

Things neural networks are saying about my book

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

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?

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

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