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Smells like the future

By Janelle Shane On February 28, 2020 - 2 min read

“What would a candle inspired by your book smell like?” This was a question that was going around the other day, and most authors got to answer with something nice. My book [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoulooklikeathing.com&t=ZTZkNThhMDM2MDM5M2Y4MDcwZjI3M2RlN2QxNjQ4MDBlYWQ5NTA5NiwxZmZhMGIxY2QwMzMzMjNkNmY3ZGEzYmE3YjkzMTdmMmRhMmVjOWVk] , however… let’s just

This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

By Janelle Shane On February 14, 2020 - 3 min read

I’ve trained neural networks to generate candy hearts [https://aiweirdness.com/post/170685749687/candy-heart-messages-written-by-a-neural-network] before, and the process goes something like this: 1. collect as many existing candy heart messages as I can (which was 366) 2. give them to a clueless

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

By Janelle Shane On February 08, 2020 - 4 min read

A week ago, in a sudden fit of terrible judgement, I decided to find out what would happen if I: 1. Asked people to help me collect examples of the worst, the weirdest, the most gelatinous recipes that vintage American cooking has to offer, then 2. Trained a neural net

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

By Janelle Shane On January 31, 2020 - 3 min read

Pictured above is an abomination in the making, a lesson in why humans should never trust what a neural net says just because it’s based on math. It’s a neural net generated brownie recipe called Chocolate Baked and Serves [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159176882762/in-which-the-neural-

Depth of field fails

By Janelle Shane On January 24, 2020 - 4 min read

You might think of AI as a thing that only runs on powerful cloud computing servers, but these days you’ll also find it in your phone. Unlike the AI in science fiction, the AI in your phone is limited to just one task at a time - predicting the next

(Untitled)

By Janelle Shane On January 17, 2020 - 4 min read

lingthusiasm [https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn] : Lingthusiasm Episode 40: Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane > If you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn

AI Weirdness in 2019

By Janelle Shane On January 09, 2020 - 3 min read

Here’s a look back at a few of my favorite projects from 2019! 1. My book, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You I published my first book, a pop science look at how artificial intelligence works and why it’s making the world a weirder place.

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

By Janelle Shane On December 31, 2019 - 3 min read

How far has AI come in a year? In 2018 I generated cocktails [https://aiweirdness.com/post/181110592232/dont-let-a-neural-net-mix-drinks] using textgenrnn [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] and char-rnn [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], two neural networks that learn to imitate text. I

The AI's Carol

By Janelle Shane On December 24, 2019 - 4 min read

In 2017 I decided to find out what would happen if I trained a neural net on 240 Christmas carols (collected by The Times of London and reader/neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson). The result? A neural net that was very confused about how Christmas works [https://aiweirdness.com/post/

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

By Janelle Shane On December 06, 2019 - 6 min read

I wrote earlier [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187645450357/dungeon-crawling-or-lucid-dreaming] about a neural net-powered dungeon crawling text adventure game called GPT-2-Adventure [https://quicktotheratcave.tumblr.com/post/187432425523/shall-we-play-a-game-a-gpt-2-text-adventure] in which gameplay is incoherent and dreamlike,

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Smells like the future

This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts

AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

Depth of field fails

(Untitled)

AI Weirdness in 2019

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

The AI's Carol

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.

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