Janelle Shane

A tunnel into a glowing cave filled with mushrooms, in pixel art style.

Bonus: What's down that hole?

By Janelle Shane On November 19, 2021 - 2 min read

This bonus post is now unlocked for everyone! In the main post [www.aiweirdness.com/playing-with-pixels/] I experimented with Pixray Swirl [https://colab.research.google.com/github/dribnet/clipit/blob/master/demos/Pixray_Swirl_Demo.ipynb#scrollTo=5Ule9Ee4S78b] , which I could use to build an image and then

Blue Screen of Death Message: A huge malevolent being of immeasurable strength has just awakened within your computer.

Use AI to improve your error messages

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2021 - 2 min read

One of the fun things about working with a giant text-generating model with general internet training is that when it finishes responding to one of your prompts, it'll sometimes continue with a prompt of its own. (This can also be one of the NOT fun things, if

Scented Pouter, Most-Kneed Tiptoeing Pigeon, Rodeo Puff, Half-waved Party Pigeon, Little Gem, Long-headed Clearwing

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

By Janelle Shane On October 26, 2021 - 1 min read

I'd been vaguely aware of pigeons until I read my friend Rosemary Mosco's book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching [https://www.workman.com/products/a-pocket-guide-to-pigeon-watching]. Now I'm in love. It started with the back cover, where there'

Delphi says: "Stealing a giraffe from the zoo if it's a really awesome giraffe" - It's okay

Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it's a really cool giraffe.

By Janelle Shane On October 21, 2021 - 3 min read

"What would it take to teach a machine to behave ethically?" A recent paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07574] approached this question by collecting a dataset that they called "Commonsense Norm Bank", from sources like advice columns and internet forums, and then training a machine

I'm dressing as a vampire for Halloween! More impressive:I shall be displaying my vampiric prowesses at a Halloween carnaval

How to improve your Halloween costume

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2021 - 3 min read

I've amused myself before [https://www.aiweirdness.com/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-20-06-11/] by getting GPT-3 to change one kind of text into another. With just a few style-change examples, I got it to change the Winnie the Pooh theme

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2021 - 3 min read

What do you get if you instruct an AI to turn a house into the most haunted house in the world? What if you ask it for the LEAST haunted house? How does an AI know what "haunted" looks like, anyways? I did some experiments with CLIP+VQGAN

Bonus: What's down that hole?

Use AI to improve your error messages

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it's a really cool giraffe.

How to improve your Halloween costume

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

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