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Three cats in costumes wtih long thin fabric spikes of various lengths and thicknesses.

AI imagines my cat in costumes

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that. But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume
From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale

I’m not sure what was more unsettling: my recent failed attempt to train a neural net called StyleGAN2 to generate screenshots from The Great British Bakeoff [https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british] , or my successful attempt to train StyleGAN2 to generate pictures of my cat [https://aiweirdness.com/post/
Trained a neural net on my cat and regret everything

Trained a neural net on my cat and regret everything

Recently I had my first-ever experiment with training a neural net to generate images, when I trained StyleGAN2 to generate screenshots from The Great British Bakeoff [https://aiweirdness.com/post/613754259190808576/this-is-not-cozy-ai-attempts-the-great-british] . Although recognizable as the baking show, it was a highly distorted, nightmarish version - it would have helped
Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens [https://aiweirdness.com/post/162396324452/neural-networks-kittens], by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations
GANCats

GANCats

A new paper from NVIDIA recently made waves with its photorealistic human portraits. Called StyleGAN [https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan], the algorithm had a new training dataset pulled from Flickr, with a wider range of ages and skin tones than in other portrait datasets. (If your pictures are on Flickr
Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

It was inevitable that the neural network, having named all kinds of internet datasets, should turn its talents to naming cats. And what an occasion! The AFK Cat Rescue [https://www.facebook.com/AFKCat/] of Huntsville, Alabama contacted me because they had an exceptionally adorable bunch of kittens (plus one
Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats

Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats

robotlaughs [https://robotlaughs.tumblr.com/post/160785806733/fun-with-a-neural-net-that-transforms-line] : > lewisandquark [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/159654519362/fun-with-a-neural-net-that-transforms-line] : > So there’s a neural network framework called pix2pix [https://github.com/phillipi/pix2pix] that can be trained to learn how to transform one type of image into another. It’s been
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