AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
This neural net knows what smells good

This neural net knows what smells good

Last week I trained a neural net on 1000 candles [https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/what-would-a-candle-inspired-by-your-book-smell] , and soon it was producing scents like Frozen Styrofoam, Volcanoes Comfort, Lemon Lime Decay, and Friendly Wetsuit. We have to just imagine what these would smell like (or in some cases, try not to
Smells like the future

Smells like the future

“What would a candle inspired by your book smell like?” This was a question that was going around the other day, and most authors got to answer with something nice. My book [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoulooklikeathing.com&t=ZTZkNThhMDM2MDM5M2Y4MDcwZjI3M2RlN2QxNjQ4MDBlYWQ5NTA5NiwxZmZhMGIxY2QwMzMzMjNkNmY3ZGEzYmE3YjkzMTdmMmRhMmVjOWVk] , however… let’s just
This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

I’ve trained neural networks to generate candy hearts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] before, and the process goes something like this: 1. collect as many existing candy heart messages as I can (which was 366) 2. give them to a clueless neural net that tries to imitate them
AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

Pictured above is an abomination in the making, a lesson in why humans should never trust what a neural net says just because it’s based on math. It’s a neural net generated brownie recipe called Chocolate Baked and Serves [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159176882762/in-which-the-neural-network-gets-bored-halfway] , and its distinguishing
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