Janelle Shane

This neural net makes my sketches real

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a kind of neural net that will convert block drawings into its best attempt at a photorealistic scene. Now it’s easier than ever to try them out, without any coding or fancy computing equipment needed. Today I’m going to show you an algorithm developed by Nvidia

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

By Janelle Shane On June 03, 2019 - 3 min read

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens [https://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and

Neural net names effects pedals

By Janelle Shane On May 30, 2019 - 3 min read

Humans have pushed against the perfections of electronics for years. One of the ways they’ve done this is by designing effects pedals meant to distort the sounds of music. The pedals usually have evocative names (“Morley Emerald Echo”, “Happy Snake Lucifuzz Fuzz”, “Lovepedal Purple Pickle Vibe”). I had never

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

By Janelle Shane On May 23, 2019 - 2 min read

One of my favorite things is to get a neural net to generate a list of things. And one of the best neural nets to subject to that task is GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet], which learned a heck of a

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

By Janelle Shane On May 16, 2019 - 4 min read

So the other day I heard from Change.org [http://change.org], a company that lets anyone make an online petition and gather signatures. In over a decade of existence, they’ve hosted about 5 million unique petitions. Some of the petitions are VERY unique - like the ongoing petition to

This neural net makes my sketches real

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Neural net names effects pedals

GPT-2: It can’t resist a list

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

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