AI Weirdness (Page 18)

New AI short story! The Skeleton Crew

By Janelle Shane On June 26, 2021 - 2 min read

illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo> "There was so much she might not hear, being located so far from her body, relying on cheap headphones. It had never mattered before." I have a new story out in Slate Future Tense! The Skeleton Crew [https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/

AI doesn't understand scale

By Janelle Shane On June 24, 2021 - 4 min read

One of my favorite ways to mess around with text-generating AI is to see what it does with new games that didn't exist on the internet back when its training data was collected. OpenAI's GPT-3 models were trained with data that cut off in late 2019

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2021 - 2 min read

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its planned hurricane names years in advance, and includes a pronunciation guide [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf] for each name. An excerpt from NOAA's 2026 Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations: > Arthur AR-thur Bertha BUR-thuh

Fun facts about fun guys

By Janelle Shane On June 04, 2021 - 3 min read

The neural net GPT-3 has seen a lot of dating profiles during its internet training. But has it seen the Bachelorette contestant variety of astonishingly pedestrian dating profile?

AI-generated food trucks

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

One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that your idea is creative enough? Lindsay Diamond [https://neurdy.com/] suggested a possible neural net solution. So as a demonstration, I wrote

New AI short story! The Skeleton Crew

AI doesn't understand scale

Hurricanes and how they are pronounced

Fun facts about fun guys

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