The other day I trained a neural net to generate the names of cookies
[http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks]
, based on about 1,000 existing recipes. The resulting names (Quitterbread Bars,
Hand Buttersacks, Low Fuzzy Feats, and more) were both delightfully weird and
strangely plausible. People even invented delicious
![How a neural net makes cookies](/content/images/size/w795/image/fetch/w_1200-c_limit-f_jpg-q_auto:good-fl_progressive:steep/https-3A-2F-2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2F3a68e478-1a6e-4d1c-b1e9-337577d425eb_6250x6326.png)