I’m continuing my Valentine’s Day tradition of getting huge neural nets to
generate candy
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heart
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“Leaning Tower of Pizza”, BigGAN steered by CLIP using Big SleepI wrote earlier about DALL-E [https://www.aiweirdness.com/the-drawings-of-dall-e/], an image
generating algorithm recently developed by OpenAI. One part of DALL-E
[https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/]’s success is another algorithm called
Now that it looks like 2020 is finally truly over, I thought I’d follow up on a
few of my favorite posts, especially the ones that have fun updates. Starting
with:
Headlines of 2020
[https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/2020-headlines?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_
What type of giraffe would you like today?
Last week OpenAI published a blog post previewing DALL-E
[https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/], a new neural network that they trained to
generate pictures from text descriptions. I’ve written about past algorithms
that have tried to make drawings to
“When a Billion Years Disappeared [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_NAV8Ieuo]”
“That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4]”
“When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQXTXbuLYo]”
One thing I like about the PBS Eons show
I’ve been experimenting with generating Christmas carols using machine learning
algorithms of various sizes. The smallest AIs, trained from scratch on a set of
carols, tended to get confused
[https://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network]
about what exactly the carols are celebrating. GPT-
Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020
headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a
decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such
as:
> Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered
I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of
success. My earliest
[https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your]
recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling,
punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible
In Henry J. Wehman’s The Mystery of Love, Courtship and Marriage Explained
(1890)
[https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n33/mode/2up]
there are charts of secret messages Victorian flirters could send with fans,
parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs.
Whether the handkerchief codes were ever in use (or mainly used