AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

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A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles

A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles

Will machine learning algorithms be writing commercials soon? A familiar sight on US roads from 1926-1963 were a series of red billboards advertising Burma-Shave. Each billboard would contain a snippet of a jingle, and the last one always read “Burma-Shave”. There were about 600 different messages printed over the years,
The first line of a novel, by an improved neural network

The first line of a novel, by an improved neural network

Earlier this month [http://aiweirdness.com/post/167049313837/a-neural-network-tries-writing-the-first-sentence] , I tried training an algorithm called a neural network to generate the first line of a novel. It didn’t go so well. A neural network learns by example, looking at a database of things (paint color names [http://aiweirdness.com/
Insufficient data may not compute, but it still loves you.

Insufficient data may not compute, but it still loves you.

I train neural networks to imitate real-life human things, from fortune cookies [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/159914835627/fortune-cookies-written-by-neural-network] to to Harry Potter fan fiction [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/164291045392/harry-potter-and-the-word-level-recurrent-neural] to guinea pig names [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/162263942282/more-neural-network-guinea-pig-names] . Unlike traditional computer programming where a human
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