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Welcome to Latent Space

By Janelle Shane On January 26, 2019 - 3 min read

I’ve written before about BigGAN [http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan], an image-generating neural net that Google trained recently. It generates its best images for each of the 1,000 different categories [https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a] in the standard ImageNet dataset, from goldfish to planetarium to toilet

What the machines will debate when the humans are gone

By Janelle Shane On January 18, 2019 - 2 min read

In 2018, IBM introduced “IBM Debater, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/technology/ibm-debater-artificial-intelligence.html] ” a machine learning algorithm whose goal was to argue with humans. Rather than a free-for-all argument (which the AI would win using the same techniques as a tireless two-year-old [https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/

Training an AI assistant

By Janelle Shane On January 11, 2019 - 3 min read

There’s an adorable game called Lab Assistant [https://lizfiacco.itch.io/lab-assistant], in which you get to train a machine learning algorithm to obey your commands. Sadly, the commands don’t include “make me a sundae” or “wield this sword of justice”, but it turns out you can learn

10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018

By Janelle Shane On January 01, 2019 - 4 min read

I did one of these for 2017 last year [http://aiweirdness.com/post/169049462997/ten-new-applications-for-neural-networks] , so I thought it would be fun to recap some of my favorite aiweirdness.com experiments from 2018. Sure, financial forecasting, facial recognition, and delivering ads may be the most common uses for machine learning,

A neural net names fireworks

By Janelle Shane On December 27, 2018 - 2 min read

I am always amazed by all the corners of life that have their own naming conventions. What makes a name sound like an heirloom apple [http://aiweirdness.com/post/177838283332/heirloom-apples-youve-never-tried-courtesy-of-ai] , or a cookie [http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] , or a Pokemon [http://iguanamouth.tumblr.com/post/158982472537/pokemon-generated-by-neural-network]

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2018 - 2 min read

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

Don’t let a neural net mix drinks.

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2018 - 3 min read

So I’ve used neural networks to generate recipes in the past. They’re computer programs that can learn to imitate the data we give them, copying the way that humans drive cars, label images, or translate languages. That is, they try to learn. They’re called “neural” because they

Aw yeah it’s time for cookies with neural networks

By Janelle Shane On December 07, 2018 - 2 min read

So there’s these computer programs called artificial neural networks that are good at imitating things. By seeing examples of what humans did, they can learn to translate languages, predict product sales, and even categorize text and images as innocuous or explicit (it has a lot of trouble with this

How to begin a song

By Janelle Shane On November 30, 2018 - 4 min read

So a while ago I made my first Twitter [https://twitter.com/BotSingalong]/ Mastodon [https://botsin.space/@singalongbot] bot, a very simple little bot called TheSingalongBot [https://twitter.com/BotSingalong]. It came out of a chance conversation at the XOXO conference with Kate Compton and Gretchen McCulloch, and all it

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

By Janelle Shane On November 21, 2018 - 2 min read

A while ago I made a bunch of new pies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/167736100922/a-neural-network-invents-some-pies]. Well, I didn’t *make* them because they were neural network invented titles and although it tried to imitate the list of pies I gave it, the neural net’s imitations are imperfect. The

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Welcome to Latent Space

What the machines will debate when the humans are gone

Training an AI assistant

10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018

A neural net names fireworks

A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net

Don’t let a neural net mix drinks.

Aw yeah it’s time for cookies with neural networks

How to begin a song

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

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