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AI does not understand “sexy”

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2018 - 3 min read

Machine learning algorithms can uncover complex patterns in the data they see, making them useful for image recognition, predicting customer service questions, or recommending movies. They can even do a decent job at naming craft [http://aiweirdness.com/post/163753995072/craft-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] beers [http://aiweirdness.

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 28, 2018 - 3 min read

The other day I discovered that neural networks [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] can learn to name rock climbing routes, when I trained one to generate new names for routes in Boulder and Joshua Tree [http://aiweirdness.com/post/174885047997/rock-climbing-routes-generated-by-neural-network] . This week, I

The Visual Chatbot

By Janelle Shane On June 21, 2018 - 3 min read

There is a delightful algorithm called Visual Chatbot [http://demo.visualdialog.org/] that will answer questions about any image it sees. It’s a demo by a team of academic researchers that goes along with a recent machine learning research paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08669](and a challenge

Rock climbing routes generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 14, 2018 - 2 min read

Climbers have given nicknames to thousands and thousands of rock climbing routes - and the names range from quirky to rude to bizarre. Clearly, this makes them an excellent candidate for imitation by a neural network [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], which specializes in these three things exactly. With the

Why did the neural network cross the road?

By Janelle Shane On June 08, 2018 - 3 min read

Can a machine learning algorithm learn to tell a joke? I’ve experimented with neural networks and jokes before, teaching them to tell knock-knock jokes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or to generate April Fools pranks [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/

Neural network-generated roller derby names

By Janelle Shane On June 01, 2018 - 2 min read

Or, this neural network is terrible at puns. There’s a contact roller skate sport called roller derby where participants tend to use pseudonyms when they play. There are online databases of derby names so players can make sure their chosen name hasn’t been taken. Derby names are often

Metal Band or My Little Pony?

By Janelle Shane On May 24, 2018 - 3 min read

Neural networks are algorithms that learn by example, rather than by following a programmer’s set of rules. Although on this blog I’ve mostly been using them to generate new examples of things (like paint [http://aiweirdness.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network] colors [http:

Generated ice cream flavors: now it’s my turn

By Janelle Shane On May 17, 2018 - 3 min read

Last week, [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173797162852/ai-scream-for-ice-cream] I featured new ice cream flavors generated by Ms. Johnson’s coding classes at Kealing Middle School in Austin, Texas. Their flavors were good - much better than mine, in fact. In part, this was because they had collected

AI does not understand “sexy”

Nails by A.I.

Nails by A.I.

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

The Visual Chatbot

Rock climbing routes generated by neural network

Why did the neural network cross the road?

Neural network-generated roller derby names

Metal Band or My Little Pony?

Generated ice cream flavors: now it’s my turn

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