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Curse your valentine with these candy hearts

By Janelle Shane On February 08, 2021 - 4 min read

When I’ve generated candy [/this-time-i-didnt-train-a-neural-20-02-14?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy] heart [/more-candy-hearts-by-neural-network-18-02-12?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&

Searching for Bernie

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2021 - 4 min read

“Leaning Tower of Pizza”, BigGAN steered by CLIP using Big SleepI wrote earlier about DALL-E [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-drawings-of-dall-e/], an image generating algorithm recently developed by OpenAI. One part of DALL-E [https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/]’s success is another algorithm called

When data is messy

By Janelle Shane On July 03, 2020 - 4 min read

There’s a story I tell in my book [https://youlooklikeathing.com] because it’s a great illustration of how AI gets the wrong idea about what problem we’re asking it to solve: Researchers at the University of Tuebingen trained a neural net to recognize images [https://medium.com/

A weirdly broken AI

By Janelle Shane On April 24, 2020 - 3 min read

The other day someone told me about a program [https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img] that will generate scenes to match a text description. I’m always excited to test out algorithms like this because the task of “draw anything a human asks for” is so hard that even

What is the opposite of guacamole?

By Janelle Shane On May 10, 2019 - 3 min read

Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN [https://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space]. Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app [http://ganbreeder.app] interface, I’m able to see what

Welcome to Latent Space

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2019 - 3 min read

I’ve written before about BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan], an image-generating neural net that Google trained recently. It generates its best images for each of the 1,000 different categories [https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a] in the standard ImageNet dataset, from

The creepiest images generated by BigGAN

By Janelle Shane On October 31, 2018 - 3 min read

Writing to you from deep inside the Uncanny Valley, I present to you some hand-selected images generated by an algorithm called BigGAN [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096]. This algorithm looks at example images of a bunch of different objects and then tries its best to figure out how

Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

By Janelle Shane On September 30, 2018 - 4 min read

These are some of the most amazing generated images I’ve ever seen. Introducing BigGAN, a neural network that generates high-resolution, sometimes photorealistic, imitations of photos it’s seen. None of the images below are real - they’re all generated by BigGAN. Preprints of the BigGAN paper are here

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