AI Weirdness (Page 16)

Scented Pouter, Most-Kneed Tiptoeing Pigeon, Rodeo Puff, Half-waved Party Pigeon, Little Gem, Long-headed Clearwing

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

By Janelle Shane On October 26, 2021 - 1 min read

I'd been vaguely aware of pigeons until I read my friend Rosemary Mosco's book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching [https://www.workman.com/products/a-pocket-guide-to-pigeon-watching]. Now I'm in love. It started with the back cover, where there'

Delphi says: "Stealing a giraffe from the zoo if it's a really awesome giraffe" - It's okay

Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it's a really cool giraffe.

By Janelle Shane On October 21, 2021 - 3 min read

"What would it take to teach a machine to behave ethically?" A recent paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07574] approached this question by collecting a dataset that they called "Commonsense Norm Bank", from sources like advice columns and internet forums, and then training a machine

I'm dressing as a vampire for Halloween! More impressive:I shall be displaying my vampiric prowesses at a Halloween carnaval

How to improve your Halloween costume

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2021 - 3 min read

I've amused myself before [https://www.aiweirdness.com/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-20-06-11/] by getting GPT-3 to change one kind of text into another. With just a few style-change examples, I got it to change the Winnie the Pooh theme

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2021 - 3 min read

What do you get if you instruct an AI to turn a house into the most haunted house in the world? What if you ask it for the LEAST haunted house? How does an AI know what "haunted" looks like, anyways? I did some experiments with CLIP+VQGAN

Several lumps of olden cake covered with generous dollops of creamy frosting.

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

By Janelle Shane On October 01, 2021 - 4 min read

There's this baking competition I really like, and one of the elements in every show is what they call the Technical Challenge. In the Technical Challenge, Great British Bakeoff contestants have to bake something they may never have seen before, based solely on a brief description and a

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it's a really cool giraffe.

How to improve your Halloween costume

How to haunt and unhaunt a house

Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge

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