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I trained a neural net on my own book

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2019 - 2 min read

I spent the last two years writing a book on AI [https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing]. It’s called You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, and today it’s finally out! And since training neural nets on things is a large percentage of my blog, of course

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

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