you look like a thing - AI Weirdness

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By Janelle Shane On November 26, 2019 - 4 min read

People wonder about what it would be like if a super-intelligent AI decided to place all of humanity in a realistic simulation. I wonder what it would be like if the simulation were built by today’s AI instead - whose computing power is somewhere around the level of an

How to begin a novel

By Janelle Shane On November 19, 2019 - 10 min read

Last year for National Novel Writing Month I trained a neural net called torch-rnn [https://github.com/learningtitans/torch-rnn/blob/valle-syllables/doc/flags.md#preprocessing] on 10,096 unique ways to begin a novel. It came up with some intriguing possibilities [https://aiweirdness.com/post/168051907512/the-first-line-of-a-novel-by-an-improved-neural] , my personal favorite

I trained a neural net on my own book

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2019 - 2 min read

I spent the last two years writing a book on AI [https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing]. It’s called You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, and today it’s finally out! And since training neural nets on things is a large percentage of my blog, of course

Easy Halloween treats generated by AI

By Janelle Shane On October 31, 2019 - 3 min read

Doing a Halloween party? Need to bring a festive food? Advanced artificial intelligence is here to help. After all, some say that large neural networks like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which trained on huge collections of text from the internet, have therefore absorbed huge amounts of the

My TED talk on AI

By Janelle Shane On October 22, 2019 - 3 min read

Remember a few months ago when I spoke at the 2019 TED conference in April (and kinda used a classic machine learning reward function hack [https://aiweirdness.com/post/184458515782/learning-to-hack-like-a-faulty-ai] on Simone Giertz’s robot workshop)? Well the video is UP! Watch it [https://www.ted.com/talks/janelle_

Things neural networks are saying about my book

By Janelle Shane On October 18, 2019 - 3 min read

Okay so the above reviews have some subtle clues that they might not have been written by real live humans. In fact, they’re the work of a text-generating neural network that OpenAI trained [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf] on millions of Amazon reviews. The color of the

An AI Weirdness book!!!

By Janelle Shane On July 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I am really really excited to announce a thing I’ve been working on for more than a year now: there’s going to be an AI Weirdness book!!!!! You can preorder it at these links: Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316525243?tag=hacboogrosit-20] - Barnes & Noble

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