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The AI's Carol

By Janelle Shane On December 24, 2019 - 4 min read

In 2017 I decided to find out what would happen if I trained a neural net on 240 Christmas carols (collected by The Times of London and reader/neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson). The result? A neural net that was very confused about how Christmas works [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

By Janelle Shane On December 06, 2019 - 6 min read

I wrote earlier [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187645450357/dungeon-crawling-or-lucid-dreaming] about a neural net-powered dungeon crawling text adventure game called GPT-2-Adventure [https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure] in which gameplay is incoherent and dreamlike,

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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-

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

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