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AI writes Star Wars jokes

By Janelle Shane On May 07, 2021 - 3 min read

One of my friends sent me some silly Star Wars jokes this week (“Where did Luke get his cybernetic hand? The second hand store.”) and on impulse I decided to see how AI would do at generating more. I decided to use GPT-3, which I knew had surely seen Star

Facts about whales

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2020 - 7 min read

When a neural net can imitate just about any kind of text on the internet, the challenge is to tell it precisely what to imitate. In my last preview of OpenAI’s new API, [https://beta.openai.com/] I asked it some pretty basic questions about horses, and it often

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

Slashdot headlines written by neural network

By Janelle Shane On October 19, 2017 - 5 min read

The news site Slashdot [https://slashdot.org/] (“news for nerds, stuff that matters”) is celebrating its 20 year anniversary this October. What could be geekier than celebrating with the help of an open-source neural network? Neural networks are a type of machine learning program that learn by example, rather than

Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 27, 2017 - 2 min read

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way humans learn. If you give them a long list of examples of anything - paint colors [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160985569682/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-part-2] , Broadway musicals [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/162939563362/terrible-broadway-musicals-imagined-by-neural] , cat names [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/

Star Wars planet names generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 20, 2017 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a kind of machine learning computer program that are very, very good at making their own internal rules about a dataset. If you give them a list of ANYTHING, they’ll figure out how to generate more stuff like it. This makes neural networks very good at

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AI writes Star Wars jokes

Facts about whales

The world through the eyes of a neural net

Slashdot headlines written by neural network

Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network

Star Wars planet names generated by neural network

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