AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

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

New Years Resolutions generated by AI

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
High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing

High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing

I’ve used neural networks to generate Halloween costumes in the past, but the early ones struggled with their complete lack of context for the training data. Why is Statue of Liberty a plausible costume yet Statue of Pizza isn’t [https://aiweirdness.com/post/166814009412/a-neural-network-designs-halloween-costumes] ? Those neural networks,
An AI's idea of a prank

An AI's idea of a prank

If you’re a longtime reader of my blog, you’ll know that AIs are consistently terrible at humor. Whether it’s a very simple neural net learning to tell knock-knock jokes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or a more-sophisticated algorithm trained on tens of thousands of short jokes
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