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This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

By Janelle Shane On July 12, 2019 - 2 min read

What would it look like if, in the distant future, a group of machine intelligences tried to make tea? Not just to brew tea, but to recreate the entire concept from long-forgotten synapses buried deep within the hidden layers of their virtual brains? To see what that might be like,

Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 05, 2019 - 3 min read

People send me the weirdest ideas. I knew that fruit flies are a mainstay of research labs, but I had never given them much thought until Prof. Greg Neely [https://www.neelylab.com/] emailed me to point out how weird the names of mutant fruit flies are. There’s a

AIs named by AIs

By Janelle Shane On June 27, 2019 - 3 min read

Neural networks can be good at naming things, I’ve discovered. Recently I’ve been experimenting with a neural network called GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which OpenAI trained on a huge chunk of the internet. Thanks to a colab notebook implementation by Max Woolf [https://github.com/

This neural net knows your secret recipe

By Janelle Shane On June 20, 2019 - 5 min read

Could you look at a picture of food and write down the recipe? There are people working on trying to train AI to do exactly this. Facebook recently made headway on this tough problem [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/inverse-cooking/] by realizing that there are so many possible recipes that

This neural net makes my sketches real

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2019 - 4 min read

There’s a kind of neural net that will convert block drawings into its best attempt at a photorealistic scene. Now it’s easier than ever to try them out, without any coding or fancy computing equipment needed. Today I’m going to show you an algorithm developed by Nvidia

This is what tea will be like in The Simulation

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AIs named by AIs

This neural net knows your secret recipe

This neural net makes my sketches real

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