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Will Orioles eat jelly with ants in it? The Orioles are a professional baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Orioles Effect

Back when the text-generating neural network GPT-2 was released, OpenAI released it in stages, in part for fear that people might use the more advanced models to generate misinformation. Now in 2022 we do indeed have people passing off AI-written text as human, but rather than being divisive, it’s
Rhyming is hard

Rhyming is hard

Although many people have generated AI [https://twitter.com/ConceptNetPoet] poetry [https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/exhibitions/house-of-dust] and lyrics [https://qz.com/920091/a-west-virginia-teen-taught-himself-how-to-build-a-rapping-ai-using-kanye-west-lyrics/] , you’ll notice that they generally don’t rhyme. That’s because generating a decent rhyme is super hard. You can get an inkling of
Escape rooms

Escape rooms

Now that so many of us are spending so much time in our own homes, the thought of being stuck in a room is very much on our minds. If you’ve ever done an escape room, you know that you can pay to be stuck in a room -
An AI's idea of a prank

An AI's idea of a prank

If you’re a longtime reader of my blog, you’ll know that AIs are consistently terrible at humor. Whether it’s a very simple neural net learning to tell knock-knock jokes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or a more-sophisticated algorithm trained on tens of thousands of short jokes
How to change a giraffe into a bird

How to change a giraffe into a bird

When people study the ways that AI generates and detects images, they have to use something as a test problem. Delightfully, a recent paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03637] decided to train an AI to transform pictures of giraffes into pictures of birds. Why? Apparently, just to see if
Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights

In the course of running a blog where I train neural nets to imitate human things, I have the fun of sometimes being introduced to things that I didn’t know very much about. Like knitting [https://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] . Or crochet [https://aiweirdness.com/post/187489831262/first-there-was-skyknit-now-theres-hat3000]
This neural net knows what smells good

This neural net knows what smells good

Last week I trained a neural net on 1000 candles [https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/what-would-a-candle-inspired-by-your-book-smell] , and soon it was producing scents like Frozen Styrofoam, Volcanoes Comfort, Lemon Lime Decay, and Friendly Wetsuit. We have to just imagine what these would smell like (or in some cases, try not to
Smells like the future

Smells like the future

“What would a candle inspired by your book smell like?” This was a question that was going around the other day, and most authors got to answer with something nice. My book [https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoulooklikeathing.com&t=ZTZkNThhMDM2MDM5M2Y4MDcwZjI3M2RlN2QxNjQ4MDBlYWQ5NTA5NiwxZmZhMGIxY2QwMzMzMjNkNmY3ZGEzYmE3YjkzMTdmMmRhMmVjOWVk] , however… let’s just
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