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Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

By Janelle Shane On August 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I’ve done several experiments with GPT-2, a neural net that OpenAI trained on millions of pages from the internet. OpenAI has been releasing the neural net in stages, with the second-biggest model, 774M, just recently released. I decided to put it through its paces. Last week’s experiment, where

Your new XFL football teams

By Janelle Shane On August 22, 2019 - 2 min read

The XFL is a strange thing - an alternative American football league led by the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment where the regular football rules are altered for maximum entertainment value. On Wednesday, the XFL revealed the names and logos of the 20 teams that the league had created for

Fun with a fake news generator

By Janelle Shane On August 15, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that algorithms like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], BERT, and GROVER have trained on a big chunk of the internet and are powerful enough to hold a train of thought for more than a sentence or two, people are worried that it might become easy to generate

Tasty British snacks

By Janelle Shane On August 08, 2019 - 3 min read

The other day this happened [https://twitter.com/gillianmsmith/status/1157620386101489664?s=20]: I took it as a challenge. After all, a neural net prompted with existing cookie recipes managed to invent [https://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] Hand Buttersacks, Apricot Dream Moles, Grandma’s Spritches, and Walps. I used

An AI Weirdness book!!!

By Janelle Shane On July 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I am really really excited to announce a thing I’ve been working on for more than a year now: there’s going to be an AI Weirdness book!!!!! You can preorder it at these links: Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316525243?tag=hacboogrosit-20] - Barnes & Noble

The world through the eyes of a neural net

By Janelle Shane On July 25, 2019 - 3 min read

What would happen if I fed a video to an AI that turns images into blobs of labeled objects, and then fed THAT video to another AI that attempts to reconstruct the original picture from those labeled blobs? I used runwayml [https://runwayml.com]’s new chaining feature to tie

The future of sparkling water

By Janelle Shane On July 17, 2019 - 2 min read

Now that it’s summer, I’m inhaling flavored seltzers - you know, the carbonated waters that taste as if you’re drinking plain water while someone gently mists your face with mango juice. My favorite flavor is pink grapefruit, but I’m always a sucker for trying new flavors.

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

By Janelle Shane On July 12, 2019 - 2 min read

What would it look like if, in the distant future, a group of machine intelligences tried to make tea? Not just to brew tea, but to recreate the entire concept from long-forgotten synapses buried deep within the hidden layers of their virtual brains? To see what that might be like,

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 05, 2019 - 3 min read

People send me the weirdest ideas. I knew that fruit flies are a mainstay of research labs, but I had never given them much thought until Prof. Greg Neely [https://www.neelylab.com/] emailed me to point out how weird the names of mutant fruit flies are. There’s a

AIs named by AIs

By Janelle Shane On June 27, 2019 - 3 min read

Neural networks can be good at naming things, I’ve discovered. Recently I’ve been experimenting with a neural network called GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which OpenAI trained on a huge chunk of the internet. Thanks to a colab notebook implementation by Max Woolf [https://github.com/

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Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

Your new XFL football teams

Fun with a fake news generator

Tasty British snacks

An AI Weirdness book!!!

The world through the eyes of a neural net

The future of sparkling water

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

AIs named by AIs

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