Janelle Shane

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 26, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Inktober [https://inktober.com/] where people post one drawing for every day in October. To help inspire people, the people behind Inktober post an official list of daily prompts, a word or phrase like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. There’s no requirement to use

A neural net names mushrooms

By Janelle Shane On September 19, 2019 - 2 min read

When neural nets try to name things, the results can be indisputably weird. Every once in a while, I come across an arena where the human-invented names are every bit as strange as those a neural net can come up with. Often, scientists are to blame. Species of bird

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

By Janelle Shane On September 11, 2019 - 7 min read

I’ve done several experiments with a text-generating neural network called GPT-2. Trained at great expense by OpenAI (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars worth of computing power), GPT-2 learned to imitate all kinds of text from the internet. I’ve interacted with the

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

By Janelle Shane On September 04, 2019 - 6 min read

[Chunky Hat”, crocheted by Joannastar] A while ago, I tried to train a neural network to generate knitting patterns by showing it a few thousand existing patterns so it could use trial and error to generate new patterns. I called the project SkyKnit [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

By Janelle Shane On August 30, 2019 - 5 min read

I’ve done several experiments with GPT-2, a neural net that OpenAI trained on millions of pages from the internet. OpenAI has been releasing the neural net in stages, with the second-biggest model, 774M, just recently released. I decided to put it through its paces. Last week’s

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

A neural net names mushrooms

Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000

Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction

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