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April Fool’s pranks written by neural network

By Janelle Shane On March 28, 2018 - 2 min read

On April 1, people play pranks on one another, and a well-designed hilarious-but-harmless prank is a true work of art. There are lists of pranks online for inspiration, but there are only so many of these, and what do you do if your target has already read the same lists?

Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On March 23, 2018 - 2 min read

The game Dungeons and Dragons has all sorts of lists of spells and abilities you can use for gameplay. I trained an algorithm called a recurrent neural network [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn] to generate more spells - like Barking Sphere, Hold Mouse, and Gland Growth [http://aiweirdness.com/post/

The Bands of South by Southwest, interpreted by neural net

By Janelle Shane On March 11, 2018 - 2 min read

Neural networks are widely used for image recognition [http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep] , language translation, finance modeling, and even medicine. They learn by example - give them a dataset and, using trial-and-error guessing, they’ll try to figure out the rules that make these datasets work. In addition to

New ways to market your self-affirmation talk, thanks to a neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 23, 2018 - 3 min read

There’s a self-affirmation talk on Spotify where a voice says things like “I am confident” over a synthesized choir. It has been rather vigorously marketed, not just for general self-confidence skills, but also under titles like: > I Will Win the Lottery I Will Improve My Meteorology Skills Attract

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 09, 2018 - 2 min read

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE

New insect species, dreamed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On February 01, 2018 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a kind of machine learning program that imitate the way the human brain learns. They learn by example, rather than by being given rules by a human programmer. And because they can get very, very good at what they do, neural networks are now the algorithms that

You are Wrong about Music, according to this neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2018 - 1 min read

I train computer programs called neural networks, which look at datasets of human things and try to copy them. They’re used for all sorts of important real-life applications, running Facebook’s facial recognition and Google’s language translation, among many, many other things. I am running the same sort

New bills introduced by neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 18, 2018 - 2 min read

Between 2009 and 2017, approximately 18,458 unique bills were introduced to the legislature of Massachusetts (out of 33,201 total). I know this because Dru Tarr [https://twitter.com/DruTarr], a legislative aide at the Massachusetts House of Representatives, very kindly compiled the publicly available list of bills [https:

Thesis titles generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 11, 2018 - 4 min read

Ever notice that sometimes the neural networks on this blog do a better job of imitating weird datasets than at other times? Here are two major things that affect how convincing a neural network version will be: 1. Amount of data vs complexity of the problem 2. How easy the

Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

By Janelle Shane On January 04, 2018 - 2 min read

Wikipedia has a page where they list [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deleted_articles_with_freaky_titles], for entertainment purposes, the titles of a bunch of pages that didn’t meet the cut. These are mostly pages that were submitted as pranks, although a few of them are clever

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April Fool’s pranks written by neural network

Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network

The Bands of South by Southwest, interpreted by neural net

New ways to market your self-affirmation talk, thanks to a neural network

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

New insect species, dreamed by neural network

You are Wrong about Music, according to this neural network

New bills introduced by neural network

Thesis titles generated by neural network

Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

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