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Tag: sweethearts

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This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

I’ve trained neural networks to generate candy hearts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] before, and the process goes something like this: 1. collect as many existing candy heart messages as I can (which was 366) 2. give them to a clueless neural net that tries to imitate them
More candy hearts by neural network

More candy hearts by neural network

Last week I trained a neural network to generate new messages for candy hearts. [http://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] They were, well, unique. My training data was really small, though - I could only find about 360 existing messages total. So, when I decided to generate some more messages,
Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE
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