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The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

By Janelle Shane On October 31, 2018 - 3 min read

Writing to you from deep inside the Uncanny Valley, I present to you some hand-selected images generated by an algorithm called BigGAN [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096]. This algorithm looks at example images of a bunch of different objects and then tries its best to figure out how to

It’s neural net Halloween costume time

By Janelle Shane On October 26, 2018 - 1 min read

People use neural networks for translating languages, recommending movies, delivering ads, and more, but this here is one of my favorite applications: utter surrealism. Last year [http://aiweirdness.com/post/166814009412/a-neural-network-designs-halloween-costumes] I trained a neural network on 4,500 Halloween costumes that you readers helped me collect. This year,

Neural Horror Picture Show

By Janelle Shane On October 19, 2018 - 2 min read

(Images generated by BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan]) Neural networks are a kind of machine learning algorithm that learn to imitate the examples I give them. They’re pretty good at picking up on the feel of craft [http://aiweirdness.com/post/163753995072/craft-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] beer [http://aiweirdness.com/

New neural net snakes

By Janelle Shane On October 12, 2018 - 2 min read

There’s a kind of neural network that learns to imitate whatever text you give it, whether that’s recipes [http://aiweirdness.com/tagged/recipes], song lyrics [http://aiweirdness.com/post/167596678562/disney-songs-sung-by-a-neural-network-with-a-very] , or even the names of guinea pigs [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162263942282/more-neural-network-guinea-pig-names]. Their imitations are often

Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

By Janelle Shane On September 30, 2018 - 4 min read

These are some of the most amazing generated images I’ve ever seen. Introducing BigGAN, a neural network that generates high-resolution, sometimes photorealistic, imitations of photos it’s seen. None of the images below are real - they’re all generated by BigGAN. Preprints of the BigGAN paper are here

Your pumpkin spice experience, brought to you by AI

By Janelle Shane On September 28, 2018 - 3 min read

Here in the Northern hemisphere, there’s finally a chill in the air, bringing with it an avalanche of decorative gourds and a generous helping of pumpkin spice. Let’s see if an artificial neural network can get into the spirit of things. Earlier, I trained a neural network to

College courses of the future, courtesy of a neural network

By Janelle Shane On September 21, 2018 - 3 min read

There are a lot of strange courses that make it into a college course catalog. What would artificial intelligence make of them? I train machine learning programs called neural networks to try to imitate human things - human things they are absolutely are not prepared to understand. I’ve trained

Neopets foods might as well be the product of artificial intelligence

By Janelle Shane On September 14, 2018 - 2 min read

Remember Neopets [http://www.neopets.com/]? It’s an online game where you can raise virtual pets that can grow, train, and battle one another in a virtual arena. Although I’ve never played it, people keep mentioning Neopets to me because apparently Neopets has very weird foods. I found

Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

By Janelle Shane On September 07, 2018 - 2 min read

It’s apple season in the northern hemisphere! If you’re lucky enough to live in an apple-growing region, you may even be able to get ahold of heirloom apples. These older varieties have fallen out of favor, sometimes because their tree wasn’t robust enough, or they didn’t

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

By Janelle Shane On August 31, 2018 - 3 min read

The names of American shopping malls are a carefully calculated combination of bland and grandiose. Even the plainest of strip malls will have a faded sign somewhere proclaiming it to be the “Westbrook Manor Shoppes at Town Center Mall” or something of that nature. What happens if a machine learning

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The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

It’s neural net Halloween costume time

Neural Horror Picture Show

New neural net snakes

Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

Your pumpkin spice experience, brought to you by AI

College courses of the future, courtesy of a neural network

Neopets foods might as well be the product of artificial intelligence

Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

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