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Paint swatches including Hog Wash, Light Persuasion, Lucky Chalk, Indecent Taupe, Classy Comma, Harrold's Koala, and Blarg

New AI paint colors

By Janelle Shane On January 28, 2022 - 4 min read

One of my first [https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17/] experiments [https://www.aiweirdness.com/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-17-05-23/] with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors. I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or

Cereal boxes: Orb Crumpets, Foam Squares, and Non-stick Carbonated Waffle Balls

New breakfast cereals from AI

By Janelle Shane On January 21, 2022 - 2 min read

The thing about working with a giant language model like GPT-3 is it has read parts of the internet that it never occurred to me might exist. Like press releases from breakfast cereal companies, articles about press releases from breakfast cereal companies, blogs by breakfast cereal enthusiasts, and probably every

A wooden structure on stilts, with a slatted railing and huge crossbeams

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

By Janelle Shane On January 07, 2022 - 4 min read

I remember when my hometown got one of these giant wooden playgrounds. It must have been in the early 90s and a kid could get lost for hours in there. Or injured or full of splinters or chromated copper arsenate I guess, which is why you don't see

My Resolution: Take photos of each of my toes daily.

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

By Janelle Shane On December 30, 2021 - 7 min read

This month I'm beginning 2022 as the first Futurist in Residence at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. It's weird to think of myself as a futurist. I write a lot about the algorithms we're calling artificial intelligence (AI), but rather than deal with

Christmas entities

By Janelle Shane On December 22, 2021 - 2 min read

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&

2022: French stick - Artisanally crafted, wooden, low-fat stick, thin enough to fit in a toaster.

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

By Janelle Shane On December 14, 2021 - 2 min read

Few could have predicted that the must-have toy of 1998 would be an owl-like bilingual hamster doll with infrared sensors, or that in 1975 kids would be begging their parents for a toy that is literally a single rock in a cardboard box. But could AI have predicted it? Could

A screenshot of the AI Weirdness 2021 Advent Calendar, with one of the doors highlighted

An AI advent calendar

By Janelle Shane On December 01, 2021 - 2 min read

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,

How to make an Intimidating Sponge Cake. Last step is "Hide it all under a carpet." (full version in post)

GPT-3: It can't resist a list

By Janelle Shane On November 26, 2021 - 3 min read

One strange thing I've noticed about otherwise reasonably competent text-generating neural nets is how their lists tend to go off the rails. I noticed this first with GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list]. But it turns out GPT-3 is no exception. Here's the largest model,

Blue Screen of Death Message: A huge malevolent being of immeasurable strength has just awakened within your computer.

Use AI to improve your error messages

By Janelle Shane On November 05, 2021 - 2 min read

One of the fun things about working with a giant text-generating model with general internet training is that when it finishes responding to one of your prompts, it'll sometimes continue with a prompt of its own. (This can also be one of the NOT fun things, if its

Scented Pouter, Most-Kneed Tiptoeing Pigeon, Rodeo Puff, Half-waved Party Pigeon, Little Gem, Long-headed Clearwing

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

By Janelle Shane On October 26, 2021 - 1 min read

I'd been vaguely aware of pigeons until I read my friend Rosemary Mosco's book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching [https://www.workman.com/products/a-pocket-guide-to-pigeon-watching]. Now I'm in love. It started with the back cover, where there's a pigeon trying so

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New AI paint colors

New breakfast cereals from AI

Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

Christmas entities

Predicting the next toy fads with AI

An AI advent calendar

GPT-3: It can't resist a list

Use AI to improve your error messages

Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds

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