Janelle Shane

High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2020 - 3 min read

I’ve used neural networks to generate Halloween costumes in the past, but the early ones struggled with their complete lack of context for the training data. Why is Statue of Liberty a plausible costume yet Statue of Pizza isn’t [https://aiweirdness.com/post/166814009412/a-neural-network-designs-

What color are you?

By Janelle Shane On October 09, 2020 - 2 min read

I’ve been having fun using GPT-3 to generate weird versions of internet memes. Even if it’s a meme that didn’t exist when GPT-3’s training data was collected from the internet (which was October 2019 for the version I’m using), most memes will fit

This blog is not a blog of honor

By Janelle Shane On September 28, 2020 - 4 min read

Last time I used GPT-3 to suggest forbidding landscapes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/629516384194461697/a-10000-year-warning] that would repel future civilizations from our nuclear waste disposal sites. There’s something about taking a subject that’s very very permanent - some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for

A 10,000 year warning

By Janelle Shane On September 17, 2020 - 4 min read

It isn’t every project that requires people to make plans for thousands or millions of years in the future. But some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for over 250,000 years [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/] , probably outliving all existing

AI supervillains

By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2020 - 2 min read

Earlier, I did the rather unsettlingly meta exercise of using a new neural net, GPT-3, to generate hypothetical AI Weirdness blog posts. [https://aiweirdness.com/post/626712039215202304/ai-ai-weirdness] One of the tricks I can do with this: GPT-3 can play along with an opening in which

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