Janelle Shane

Christmas entities

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2021 - 2 min read

When you think about it, Christmas can get pretty weird. There's the classic Christmas story of the Bible, and then there are all these extra entities that aren't in the book but which become somehow part of Christmas. And some of them are quite unsettling. There&

2022: French stick - Artisanally crafted, wooden, low-fat stick, thin enough to fit in a toaster.

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2021 - 2 min read

Few could have predicted that the must-have toy of 1998 would be an owl-like bilingual hamster doll with infrared sensors, or that in 1975 kids would be begging their parents for a toy that is literally a single rock in a cardboard box. But could AI have predicted

A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 2 min read

When I was a kid I looked forward to opening advent calendar doors in December, although the pictures behind the doors were pretty forgettable. A bell. A snowflake. If you were lucky, a squirrel. So I thought I'd see if I can generate something a bit more interesting,

Santa's head and a single pancake are visible, and three blobs that might be attempts at sloth faces.

Bonus: the advent calendar images that didn't work out

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 3 min read

I built an advent calendar by using GPT-3 to generate descriptions and Pixray to illustrate them! But some of the descriptions were too long for the calendar doors, or else Pixray seemed to really struggle with them. I've collected some of my favorites here!

How to make an Intimidating Sponge Cake. Last step is "Hide it all under a carpet." (full version in post)

GPT-3: It can't resist a list

By Janelle Shane On November 26, 2021 - 3 min read

One strange thing I've noticed about otherwise reasonably competent text-generating neural nets is how their lists tend to go off the rails. I noticed this first with GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list]. But it turns out GPT-3

A vivid green and red landscape with wobbly jelly-like bushes.

Playing with Pixels

By Janelle Shane On November 19, 2021 - 4 min read

Here's "Ice Cream Planet Swirl", as generated by Pixray. Full prompt: Ice Cream Planet Swirl #8bit #pixelart. Colors are chocolate, minty green, and cream.Pixray uses CLIP, which OpenAI trained on a bunch of internet photos and associated text. CLIP acts as a judge, telling Pixray

Christmas entities

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

An AI advent calendar

Bonus: the advent calendar images that didn't work out

GPT-3: It can't resist a list

Playing with Pixels

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