AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

Tag: christmas

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Four very strange Victorian-esque Christmas cards, with leaping artichokes, dancing seahorses, and sledding poops.

Victorian Holiday cards by AI

I'll admit I don't understand Victorian holiday cards - why would Christmas be best illustrated by a pipe-smoking kangaroo in a dressing gown painting a portrait of a cigar-smoking stork? Or what would lead someone to give their loved ones a card with a crowd of sparrows marching with flaming
Three advent calendars with illegible numbers and inscrutable illustrations

AI Advent Calendar 2022

Please enjoy this advent calendar, generated and illustrated with the help of three machine learning models (GPT-3, DALL-E, and Midjourney) Full door descriptions 1. Eggnog as far as the eye could see 2. The fantastical lion of Mor-Bollox 3. Saturated Red Turkeys. 4. Blue reindeer (they're bouncing) 5. Candy Cane
The Three Christmas Weasels

Christmas entities

When you think about it, Christmas can get pretty weird. There's the classic Christmas story of the Bible, and then there are all these extra entities that aren't in the book but which become somehow part of Christmas. And some of them are quite unsettling. There's the immortal flying reindeer
A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

When I was a kid I looked forward to opening advent calendar doors in December, although the pictures behind the doors were pretty forgettable. A bell. A snowflake. If you were lucky, a squirrel. So I thought I'd see if I can generate something a bit more interesting, with the
A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

This seems to be a year for AI experiments centered around Christmas movies. MIT Technology Review [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/] generated some titles and plot summaries (I would probably watch The Christmas StorK) and Botnik Studios [https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/1074700267046756353] has been using predictive text
Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems. They’re used for face recognition, self-driving cars, language translation, financial decisions, and more. I mainly use them to write humor. My process starts with a dataset - something that the neural
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