AI Weirdness (Page 30)

Depth of field fails

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

You might think of AI as a thing that only runs on powerful cloud computing servers, but these days you’ll also find it in your phone. Unlike the AI in science fiction, the AI in your phone is limited to just one task at a time - predicting the

Robo-Lingthusiasm

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

lingthusiasm [https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn] : Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle ShaneIf you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these things for

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

lingthusiasm [https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn] : Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane > If you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these

AI Weirdness in 2019

By Janelle Shane On January 09, 2020 - 3 min read

Here’s a look back at a few of my favorite projects from 2019! 1. My book, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You I published my first book, a pop science look at how artificial intelligence works and why it’s making the world a weirder place.

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

By Janelle Shane On December 31, 2019 - 3 min read

How far has AI come in a year? In 2018 I generated cocktails [https://aiweirdness.com/post/181110592232/dont-let-a-neural-net-mix-drinks] using textgenrnn [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] and char-rnn [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], two neural networks that learn to imitate text. I trained them on 1000 cocktails that Beth Skwarecki

The AI's Carol

By Janelle Shane On December 24, 2019 - 4 min read

In 2017 I decided to find out what would happen if I trained a neural net on 240 Christmas carols (collected by The Times of London and reader/neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson). The result? A neural net that was very confused about how Christmas works [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

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AI Weirdness in 2019

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