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By Janelle Shane On March 29, 2019 - 4 min read

Welcome to Word Vector Space On this blog I’ve posted a lot about neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Unlike other kinds of computer programs, they don’t rely on step by step instructions from a programmer - instead, they’re given a goal, like a score to

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By Janelle Shane On March 21, 2019 - 1 min read

H.M.S. Neural Net One of my favorite things to do with machine learning algorithms is to get them to name things. Give a neural network (a type of machine learning algorithm) enough examples, and it will do an often decent (sometimes howlingly bad) imitation of their letter combinations

D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2019 - 7 min read

I like training neural networks to generate Dungeons and Dragons stuff because, well, the results are really really weird. To date I’ve generated spells [http://aiweirdness.com/post/165373096197/a-neural-network-learns-to-create-better-dd] , creatures [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172170729017/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by] , and character names [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173546448332/dd-character-names-generated-by-a-neural] , thanks to readers

How a neural net makes cookies

By Janelle Shane On March 01, 2019 - 3 min read

The other day I trained a neural net to generate the names of cookies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] , based on about 1,000 existing recipes. The resulting names (Quitterbread Bars, Hand Buttersacks, Low Fuzzy Feats, and more) were both delightfully weird and strangely plausible. People even invented delicious

A neural net designed some comics for you

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

It is quite fitting that the idea to train a neural net to generate comics names came from the creator of a webcomic about a hapless AI robot [http://LABScomic.com]. Aaron Uglum collected 1,417 names of newspaper comics from Wikipedia, and I gave them to textgenrnn to see

GPT-2: It learned on the Internet

By Janelle Shane On February 15, 2019 - 6 min read

> Prompt: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to Response: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to Africa that is powerfully seductive. In the songs of Barry Sequson, Harry Holness and Alan Emerson the black-capped chickadee competes with others—and climbs on top of each other

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By Janelle Shane On February 07, 2019 - 2 min read

A new paper from NVIDIA recently made waves with its photorealistic human portraits. Called StyleGAN [https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan], the algorithm had a new training dataset pulled from Flickr, with a wider range of ages and skin tones than in other portrait datasets. (If your pictures are on Flickr

What do neural nets dream of?

By Janelle Shane On February 01, 2019 - 4 min read

Dreams are really weird, when you think about them. Let’s lie still for several hours and maybe vividly hallucinate? A lot of what people call AI these days are algorithms called artificial neural networks, a type of algorithm that’s modeled after the human brain. They have some things

Welcome to Latent Space

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2019 - 3 min read

I’ve written before about BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan], an image-generating neural net that Google trained recently. It generates its best images for each of the 1,000 different categories [https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a] in the standard ImageNet dataset, from goldfish to planetarium to toilet

What the machines will debate when the humans are gone

By Janelle Shane On January 18, 2019 - 2 min read

In 2018, IBM introduced “IBM Debater, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/technology/ibm-debater-artificial-intelligence.html] ” a machine learning algorithm whose goal was to argue with humans. Rather than a free-for-all argument (which the AI would win using the same techniques as a tireless two-year-old [https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/

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D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!

A neural net designed some comics for you

GPT-2: It learned on the Internet

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