Janelle Shane

What is the opposite of guacamole?

By Janelle Shane On May 10, 2019 - 3 min read

Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space]. Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app [http://ganbreeder.app] interface, I’m able to see what

A neural net names racehorses

By Janelle Shane On May 03, 2019 - 2 min read

I’ve used neural networks to name all kinds of things - halloween costumes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/179461774272/its-neural-net-halloween-costume-time] , craft beers [http://aiweirdness.com/post/166075083502/trendy-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] , cats [http://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], and even guinea

Learning to hack like a faulty AI

By Janelle Shane On April 26, 2019 - 3 min read

So last week I was a biiiit busy, traveling to Vancouver to give a TED talk(!!!!). I’ll post the talk when it goes live online, probably at the end of October. For me, one of the highlights of the 2019 TED conference was Simone Giertz’s “Sh*tty Robot

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

By Janelle Shane On April 12, 2019 - 2 min read

The other day, Katie E. M. tweeted [https://twitter.com/kt_bop/status/1116106321718390790] the following: > Astrophysicists are all like, “ah, yes, this important piece of technology? It’s called the Very Very Very Long Extra Big Spectrometer Device. This other one? We call it NINJATURTLE for short, and

Discount Strong Bad emails

By Janelle Shane On April 01, 2019 - 2 min read

Children of the early 2000s internet (hi!) may remember spending hours watching Strong Bad emails [http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html] from homestarrunner.com [http://homestarrunner.com]. They are literally short videos of some guy named Strong Bad checking his email and they are hilarious. Anyway, Strong Bad just emailed this

What is the opposite of guacamole?

A neural net names racehorses

Learning to hack like a faulty AI

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

Discount Strong Bad emails

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