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This neural net knows your secret recipe

By Janelle Shane On June 20, 2019 - 5 min read

Could you look at a picture of food and write down the recipe? There are people working on trying to train AI to do exactly this. Facebook recently made headway on this tough problem [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/inverse-cooking/] by realizing that there are so many possible recipes that

This neural net makes my sketches real

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a kind of neural net that will convert block drawings into its best attempt at a photorealistic scene. Now it’s easier than ever to try them out, without any coding or fancy computing equipment needed. Today I’m going to show you an algorithm developed by Nvidia

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

By Janelle Shane On June 03, 2019 - 3 min read

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens [https://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations

Neural net names effects pedals

By Janelle Shane On May 30, 2019 - 3 min read

Humans have pushed against the perfections of electronics for years. One of the ways they’ve done this is by designing effects pedals meant to distort the sounds of music. The pedals usually have evocative names (“Morley Emerald Echo”, “Happy Snake Lucifuzz Fuzz”, “Lovepedal Purple Pickle Vibe”). I had never

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

By Janelle Shane On May 23, 2019 - 2 min read

One of my favorite things is to get a neural net to generate a list of things. And one of the best neural nets to subject to that task is GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet], which learned a heck of a lot of things (okay not all of

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

By Janelle Shane On May 16, 2019 - 4 min read

So the other day I heard from Change.org [http://change.org], a company that lets anyone make an online petition and gather signatures. In over a decade of existence, they’ve hosted about 5 million unique petitions. Some of the petitions are VERY unique - like the ongoing petition

What is the opposite of guacamole?

By Janelle Shane On May 10, 2019 - 3 min read

Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space]. Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app [http://ganbreeder.app] interface, I’m able to see what BigGAN can generate

A neural net names racehorses

By Janelle Shane On May 03, 2019 - 2 min read

I’ve used neural networks to name all kinds of things - halloween costumes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/179461774272/its-neural-net-halloween-costume-time] , craft beers [http://aiweirdness.com/post/166075083502/trendy-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] , cats [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], and even guinea pigs [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162263942282/more-neural-network-guinea-pig-names]. The weirder the starting set

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

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

The other day, Katie E. M. tweeted [https://twitter.com/kt_bop/status/1116106321718390790] the following: > Astrophysicists are all like, “ah, yes, this important piece of technology? It’s called the Very Very Very Long Extra Big Spectrometer Device. This other one? We call it NINJATURTLE for short, and

Discount Strong Bad emails

By Janelle Shane On April 01, 2019 - 2 min read

Children of the early 2000s internet (hi!) may remember spending hours watching Strong Bad emails [http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html] from homestarrunner.com [http://homestarrunner.com]. They are literally short videos of some guy named Strong Bad checking his email and they are hilarious. Anyway, Strong Bad just emailed this

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This neural net knows your secret recipe

This neural net makes my sketches real

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Neural net names effects pedals

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

What is the opposite of guacamole?

A neural net names racehorses

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

Discount Strong Bad emails

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