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My TED talk on AI

By Janelle Shane On October 22, 2019 - 3 min read

Remember a few months ago when I spoke at the 2019 TED conference in April (and kinda used a classic machine learning reward function hack [https://aiweirdness.com/post/184458515782/learning-to-hack-like-a-faulty-ai] on Simone Giertz’s robot workshop)? Well the video is UP! Watch it [https://www.ted.com/talks/janelle_

Things neural networks are saying about my book

By Janelle Shane On October 18, 2019 - 3 min read

Okay so the above reviews have some subtle clues that they might not have been written by real live humans. In fact, they’re the work of a text-generating neural network that OpenAI trained [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf] on millions of Amazon reviews. The color of the

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

By Janelle Shane On October 14, 2019 - 4 min read

In my opinion, one of the best applications of neural networks is for generating Halloween costumes. Thanks to a dataset of over 7,100 costumes crowdsourced from readers of this blog, I’ve been able to generate Halloween costumes with progressively more powerful neural networks. In 2017, I used char-rnn

A.I. versus confusing goose game

By Janelle Shane On October 08, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Untitled Goose Game [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fgoose.game%2F&t=OGJmMGVkMjNlMWE1YjQxMTVhZTNhOTRjOTM2ZjE2NWZhNDQ2ZDM5Yyw4NmFjMTNiNjUxOGMwMDZjYzc3MjE2NjA5NjBhOGJjYmIyNjVkNjdk] , in which you play as a horrible goose that wreaks various forms of mischief on some mild-mannered villagers. You have a to-do list of mayhem such as:

A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts

By Janelle Shane On September 26, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a game called Inktober [https://inktober.com/] where people post one drawing for every day in October. To help inspire people, the people behind Inktober post an official list of daily prompts, a word or phrase like Thunder, Fierce, Tired, or Friend. There’s no requirement to use

My TED talk on AI

Things neural networks are saying about my book

Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2

A.I. versus confusing goose game

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