AI Weirdness (Page 22)

The drawings of DALL-E

By Janelle Shane On January 12, 2021 - 4 min read

What type of giraffe would you like today? Last week OpenAI published a blog post previewing DALL-E [https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/], a new neural network that they trained to generate pictures from text descriptions. I’ve written about past algorithms that have tried to make drawings to order [https:

The Epic History of the Earth

By Janelle Shane On December 29, 2020 - 2 min read

“When a Billion Years Disappeared [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_NAV8Ieuo]” “That Time It Rained for Two Million Years [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4]” “When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQXTXbuLYo]” One thing I like about the PBS Eons show

Alternate Rudolphs

By Janelle Shane On December 23, 2020 - 5 min read

I’ve been experimenting with generating Christmas carols using machine learning algorithms of various sizes. The smallest AIs, trained from scratch on a set of carols, tended to get confused [https://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network] about what exactly the carols are celebrating. GPT-2, larger and with some internet pretraining…

2020 Headlines

By Janelle Shane On December 16, 2020 - 4 min read

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as: > Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered in

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

By Janelle Shane On December 02, 2020 - 5 min read

I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of success. My earliest [https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your] recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling, punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible (Swamp Peef and Cheese, anyone? Or

Post-human flirting

By Janelle Shane On November 23, 2020 - 3 min read

In Henry J. Wehman’s The Mystery of Love, Courtship and Marriage Explained (1890) [https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n33/mode/2up] there are charts of secret messages Victorian flirters could send with fans, parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs. Whether the handkerchief codes were ever in use (or mainly used

The drawings of DALL-E

The Epic History of the Earth

Alternate Rudolphs

2020 Headlines

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

Post-human flirting

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