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A 10,000 year warning

By Janelle Shane On September 17, 2020 - 4 min read

It isn’t every project that requires people to make plans for thousands or millions of years in the future. But some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for over 250,000 years [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/] , probably outliving all existing civilizations, languages, and possibly even humanity itself.

AI supervillains

By Janelle Shane On September 09, 2020 - 2 min read

Earlier, I did the rather unsettlingly meta exercise of using a new neural net, GPT-3, to generate hypothetical AI Weirdness blog posts. [https://aiweirdness.com/post/626712039215202304/ai-ai-weirdness] One of the tricks I can do with this: GPT-3 can play along with an opening in which I declare that I’

AI-generated drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 02, 2020 - 3 min read

Introducing #Botober, a set of AI-generated drawing prompts for each day in October! Last year I generated prompts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187962817292/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-prompts] by finetuning GPT-2 on 124 examples from previous years. The human-written training examples included items like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. The neural net-generated examples included

The story behind AI drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 02, 2020 - 3 min read

Introducing #Botober, a set of AI-generated drawing prompts for each day in October! Last year I generated prompts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187962817292/ainktober-a-neural-net-creates-drawing-prompts] by finetuning GPT-2 on 124 examples from previous years. The human-written training examples included items like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. The neural net-generated examples included

Planet Earth From Above

By Janelle Shane On August 24, 2020 - 4 min read

Melbourne, Australia: home of kangaroos, botanical gardens, and a surreal monolith, jutting impossibly tall and narrow above its unassuming neighbors. [images from a video by reddit user fulltimespy [https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ieccxk/melbournes_200_storey_tower_landing_challenge/] , in a successful completion of the Monolith Challenge]

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