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Tag: christmas carols

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Old-timey style illustrations mostly of birds in santa hats & garbled versions of verses from 12 days of christmas

Your illustrated guide to Christmas carols

Between the two of them, ChatGPT4 can generate the lyrics to Christmas carols, and DALL-E3 can illustrate them! Throw your old carol books away because this is the only guide you'll need. 12 Days of Christmas Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (if you read out the tiny text beneath
AI Weirdness in 2020

AI Weirdness in 2020

Now that it looks like 2020 is finally truly over, I thought I’d follow up on a few of my favorite posts, especially the ones that have fun updates. Starting with: Headlines of 2020 [https://ai-weirdness.ghost.io/2020-headlines?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&
Alternate Rudolphs

Alternate Rudolphs

I’ve been experimenting with generating Christmas carols using machine learning algorithms of various sizes. The smallest AIs, trained from scratch on a set of carols, tended to get confused [https://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network] about what exactly the carols are celebrating. GPT-2, larger and with some internet pretraining…
Jukebox of weirdness

Jukebox of weirdness

Ever wish you could hear what it would have sounded like if jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald had done a cover of Baby Shark? [https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/jazz-in-the-style-of-ella-fitzgerald] So classy, right? How did this happen? A couple of steps: 1. OpenAI trained a new neural net called Jukebox [https:
The AI's Carol

The AI's Carol

In 2017 I decided to find out what would happen if I trained a neural net on 240 Christmas carols (collected by The Times of London and reader/neural net hobbyist Erik Svensson). The result? A neural net that was very confused about how Christmas works [https://aiweirdness.com/post/
Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way that brains learn to solve problems. They’re used for face recognition, self-driving cars, language translation, financial decisions, and more. I mainly use them to write humor. My process starts with a dataset - something that the neural
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