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Will Orioles eat jelly with ants in it? The Orioles are a professional baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

By Janelle Shane On May 12, 2022 - 4 min read

Back when the text-generating neural network GPT-2 was released, OpenAI released it in stages, in part for fear that people might use the more advanced models to generate misinformation. Now in 2022 we do indeed have people passing off AI-written text as human, but rather than being divisive, it’s

drawing of a clam with a spiked shell, about the same size as a silhouetted scuba diver

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

By Janelle Shane On April 29, 2022 - 3 min read

"The Megalodon was a large bivalve, measuring up to 2.5 meters in length. Its shell was covered in spines, and it had a large, powerful jaw for crushing prey." Although the megalodon is the most widely known as a giant prehistoric shark, I recently learned that Megalodon

A set of 8 somewhate misshapen eggs with colorful but confusing patterns and bands.

AI-generated easter eggs

By Janelle Shane On April 14, 2022 - 3 min read

How would AI decorate an easter egg? I've tried this before by training an image-generating model exclusively on pictures of easter eggs I decorated (they came out plain, if a bit wobbly [https://www.aiweirdness.com/nonexistent-easter-eggs-20-04-09/]). I decided to see what I would get using a model

A sketch of a computer desktop with a clown for a background and an error window saying you have been pranked

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2022 - 4 min read

I've tried various [https://www.aiweirdness.com/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-18-03-28/] methods [https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank-20-04-01/] of using AI to generate April Fools pranks for you to play on other people (although often they turned out to be pranks you play on yourself [https://www.aiweirdness.com/pranks-you-can-do-at-home/]). But this

Magical Utopia - We've got a wizard living in the shed, who occasionally comes out to do magic and eat cheese sandwiches.

AI-generated utopias

By Janelle Shane On March 18, 2022 - 3 min read

AI isn't known for being able to solve the big problems, but what about the VERY large problems, such as possible futures to strive for? I decided to find out if I could get GPT-3 to come up with new ideas for utopias. Since GPT-3 works by predicting

Fancy golf course sign reading "BOVDVTRGHASSA CAINWGS CE/CTGS The GOLF Golf Course"

Be not afraid of these perfectly normal golf courses

By Janelle Shane On March 06, 2022 - 3 min read

What would an AI who's never seen or heard of golf courses do when shown a list of real golf course names and challenged to generate more? When Jeff Kissel sent me 15,626 existing golf course names from the National Course Rating Database [https://ncrdb.usga.org/

An impressive rainforest, a san francisco that looks more like scotland, and a tiny furry giraffe

Generating landscapes without people

By Janelle Shane On February 18, 2022 - 5 min read

I've been experimenting with GauGAN2, released [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/22/gaugan2-ai-art-demo/] in Nov 2021 as a follow-on to GauGAN [https://www.aiweirdness.com/this-neural-net-makes-my-sketches-19-06-15/]. One new thing Nvidia added in GauGAN2 is the ability to generate a picture to match a phrase. "A

AI-generated valentine cards including "Valentine is super sexy!" (Image of a chickpea)

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

By Janelle Shane On February 04, 2022 - 3 min read

I remember having to give out Valentine cards in elementary school, a mandatory expression of not-actual-valentine-feeling in which you could express your individuality and warm regard for your best friends and the classroom bully by giving them small store-bought cards with cartoon characters and generic messages on them. But what

Paint swatches including Hog Wash, Light Persuasion, Lucky Chalk, Indecent Taupe, Classy Comma, Harrold's Koala, and Blarg

New AI paint colors

By Janelle Shane On January 28, 2022 - 4 min read

One of my first [https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17/] experiments [https://www.aiweirdness.com/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-17-05-23/] with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors. I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or

Cereal boxes: Orb Crumpets, Foam Squares, and Non-stick Carbonated Waffle Balls

New breakfast cereals from AI

By Janelle Shane On January 21, 2022 - 2 min read

The thing about working with a giant language model like GPT-3 is it has read parts of the internet that it never occurred to me might exist. Like press releases from breakfast cereal companies, articles about press releases from breakfast cereal companies, blogs by breakfast cereal enthusiasts, and probably every

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The Baltimore Orioles Effect

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

AI-generated easter eggs

AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you

AI-generated utopias

Be not afraid of these perfectly normal golf courses

Generating landscapes without people

AI-generated Valentine's Cards

New AI paint colors

New breakfast cereals from AI

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