Notices by Janelle Shane (janellecshane@wandering.shop)

Here are some candy hearts written by the neural net GPT-2. It's one of the most powerful text-generating neural nets out there, but I don't think it really knows what is expected of a candy heart.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/190825122292/this-time-i-didnt-train-a-neural-net-to-generate

My first published fiction: on the feral self-driving scooters of nyc https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html

Need a Halloween costume idea? Here are some ideas generated by a neural net

https://aiweirdness.com/post/188342947482/halloween-costumes-by-the-neural-net-gpt-2

Have you heard of this game where you play as a horrible goose that wreaks mischief on the mild-mannered inhabitants of a small English village?

This neural net certainly hadn't.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/188214106227/ai-versus-confusing-goose-game

Decided to put the new GPT-774M neural net to a vigorous test: writing fanfiction.

It actually does really well.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/187374759802/bigger-than-before-a-larger-neural-net-tries-to

flawless reconstruction by our robot overlords

a neural net invents new lacroix flavors you won't find at the store
https://aiweirdness.com/post/186353419952/the-future-of-sparkling-water

Some of the neural net teas now exist as Adagio Teas blends! Impressed at how Patricia managed to put together a plausible "Slippery Violet Sands" and a "Winter Snail Glitter Bomb"
https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/group.html?group=16449

Who wants neural net-generated tea?

Green Slime Essence
Fresh Green Skunk
Strawberry Lime Dissolution B
Ice Chlorophyll Glaze
Bleeding Apples with Sea Salt
Dangerous Rock TREET
REFILLED POWER Fraps
0-3 ½.5Gridges
26 Grief Hills
4 Cup Emulsion
Drcrated skin finishes!
Size Yes 37 (21,28,38) x 54 (9 or 15)mm
Shiny Living Veins
Blue Foam Duet
Fish Drumstick
A unique combination of leaf of fire and custard Sodium ascending Fujiyama

What would it be like if machine intelligences of the far future tried to recreate tea?
This may be the most wandering.shop experiment I've ever done.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/186235675877/this-is-what-tea-will-be-like-in-the-simulation

In case you missed it: I'm using a neural net to generate crochet patterns. Quite a few of them are space-devouring hyperbolic traps.
Results (and amazing test knits) on my birdsite and in the Ravelry LSG thread. Not posted here to avoid spamming you all with patterns. https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3775834

nothing to worry about. it's only mutant fly strains invented by a neural net
https://aiweirdness.com/post/186072231337/nothing-to-worry-about-just-mutant-fruit-flies

Decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net to write names for self-aware AIs.
May I present: GPT-2 trained on AI names from Iain M. Banks's Culture novels
https://aiweirdness.com/post/185883998702/ais-named-by-ais

This AI will do its best to turn any picture into a recipe.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/185726764757/this-neural-net-knows-your-secret-recipe

code & paper by @facebookai : https://research.fb.com/publications/inverse-cooking-recipe-generation-from-food-images/

colab notebook by @jonathanfly : https://colab.research.google.com/gist/JonathanFly/33946a08080041e90e8360b25e263a4e/facebook-cooking-demo.ipynb

@halcy this is what makes me think we’re not in a simulation. If we were, some microbe would have figured out how to hack the physics for free energy.

When AI is asked to get to the finish line, it tends to build a very tall robot that gets there by falling over.
I copied that strategy and almost broke Simone Giertz's robot workshop. (Sorry!)
https://aiweirdness.com/post/184458515782/learning-to-hack-like-a-faulty-ai

Spent some time playing with OpenAI's GPT-2 neural net, which, delightfully, writes fan fiction and generates very suspect science facts.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet

Advanced artificial intelligence has analyzed over 2,200 pies and developed these delicious new flavors.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/180349337437/how-to-make-high-tech-pies-sound-really-old

I fed over 8,000 CNN Business headlines to a neural net to see which new headlines it would predict.
For some reason, it predicted companies behaving rather badly.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/179938486347/cnn-headlines-according-to-a-neural-net

Productivity hack: I'm at the coffeeshop seated next to a stranger who, at the slightest sign of distraction or web-surfing from me, will immediately engage me in conversation on herbal remedies or politics.