Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

Trained a neural net on the Great British Bakeoff

results were less than cozy

it tried, though

StyleGAN2 via runwayml
https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british

Did you know there's a paper where they spent 3 weeks training a neural net to transform giraffes into birds?

new blog post
https://aiweirdness.com/post/613123668121419776/how-to-change-a-giraffe-into-a-bird

Would love to see these neural net generated court cases rendered by a real court artist.

There's a whole class of weird US court cases against inanimate objects:

United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
United States v One Solid Gold Object In The Form Of A Rooster

I decided to see what a neural net would make of them.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/612669075940900864/court-cases-that-sound-like-the-weirdest-fights

These candles don't (and probably shouldn't) exist.

I trained the neural net GPT-2 on just 72 descriptions of scented candles collected by Amy Pollien The neural net relied on its general internet training for the rest.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/611853103688499200/this-neural-net-knows-what-smells-good

Scented candles from a neural net trained on 1000 existing candles

The neural net is based on math, so it is infallible. This is the future.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/smells-like-the-future

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

Boulder area folks!
I'll be at @boulderbooks, one of my favorite bookstores talking about You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Wed Feb 19 at 7:30
more info:
https://www.boulderbookstore.net/event/janelle-shane-you-look-thing-and-i-love-you

WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE

I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes

I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence

https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2ndvbMW

Current soundscape: wind and light rain and birds

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/autumnWalkSoundscapeGenerator.php?l=00422200372900004200&m=&d=0

Decided to see what would happen if I pitted neural net against neural net, asking the neural net GPT-2 to write recipes to go with a much simpler neural net's strange recipe titles

valiant attempt at "Crockpot Cold Water"

https://aiweirdness.com/post/190569291992/ai-recipes-are-bad-and-a-proposal-for-making-them

This AI is trying to blur the background of my webcam image, and I am making things difficult for it https://aiweirdness.com/post/190441069697/depth-of-field-fails

Huge thanks to everyone who recommended mynoise.net!

This is wizardry. I just TURNED UP THE RAIN.

it’s blocking the conversations happening mere feet away.

Does anyone have a favorite source for white noise/ambient noise (like rain, fireplace, waves)?

I had no idea McMurdo got ships! That water's been frozen every time I've checked

Anyone have a good system for buying, storing, and listening to music? In particular, I'm interested in hearing from people who who buy a lot of CDs from artists who aren't in things like Amazon, iTunes, or Spotify. Do you have a method for accessing your library while you're traveling?

I decided to look back at 2019 in AI Weirdness, revisiting some of my favorite projects. I did this for 2018 too, but wow, what a lot has changed in a year!
https://aiweirdness.com/post/190160884937/ai-weirdness-in-2019

Just finished the new Murderbot novel and it is EXCELLENT

i have never laughed so hard at a function name before

if you have never read the Murderbot Diaries series, you are in for a TREAT