Janelle Shane

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Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

By Janelle Shane On October 01, 2021 - 4 min read

There's this baking competition I really like, and one of the elements in every show is what they call the Technical Challenge. In the Technical Challenge, Great British Bakeoff contestants have to bake something they may never have seen before, based solely on a brief description and a

Very normal grocery stores

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2021 - 2 min read

I was reminded recently [https://twitter.com/HardSciFiMovies/status/1438945429878620163] that US grocery stores often have strange names. I grew up shopping at Big Bear and Giant Eagle and thought it was very normal for grocery stores to be named after megafauna. Given a list of real but strange grocery

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

By Janelle Shane On September 12, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite things ever is when AI instructs people to do silly creative things, and the humans gamely play along. For a couple [https://www.aiweirdness.com/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-19-09-26/] of Octobers [https://www.aiweirdness.com/628160900506025984/] now I've used

AI is based on math so it is correct

By Janelle Shane On September 03, 2021 - 3 min read

Since OpenAI released CLIP, trained on internet pictures and their nearby text, people have been using it to generate images. In all these methods - CLIP+Dall-E [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-drawings-of-dall-e/], CLIP+BigGAN [https://www.aiweirdness.com/searching-for-bernie/], CLIP+FFT [https://www.aiweirdness.

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

Very normal grocery stores

Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope

AI is based on math so it is correct

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