AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

Tag: recipes

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How to make an Intimidating Sponge Cake. Last step is "Hide it all under a carpet." (full version in post)

GPT-3: It can't resist a list

One strange thing I've noticed about otherwise reasonably competent text-generating neural nets is how their lists tend to go off the rails. I noticed this first with GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list]. But it turns out GPT-3 is no exception. Here's the largest model,
2020 Headlines

2020 Headlines

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as: > Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered in
A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of success. My earliest [https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your] recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling, punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible (Swamp Peef and Cheese, anyone? Or
AI AI Weirdness

AI AI Weirdness

Now that GPT-3 is capable of writing entire personality quizzes (sort of [https://aiweirdness.com/post/625169439532482560/which-ai-generated-personality-quiz-are-you] ), could it write an entire blog post for me? I prompted GPT-3 with “Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today’s blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural
AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)

Pictured above is an abomination in the making, a lesson in why humans should never trust what a neural net says just because it’s based on math. It’s a neural net generated brownie recipe called Chocolate Baked and Serves [https://aiweirdness.com/post/159176882762/in-which-the-neural-network-gets-bored-halfway] , and its distinguishing
Easy Halloween treats generated by AI

Easy Halloween treats generated by AI

Doing a Halloween party? Need to bring a festive food? Advanced artificial intelligence is here to help. After all, some say that large neural networks like GPT-2 [https://aiweirdness.com/post/185085792997/gpt-2-it-cant-resist-a-list], which trained on huge collections of text from the internet, have therefore absorbed huge amounts of the
This neural net knows your secret recipe

This neural net knows your secret recipe

Could you look at a picture of food and write down the recipe? There are people working on trying to train AI to do exactly this. Facebook recently made headway on this tough problem [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/inverse-cooking/] by realizing that there are so many possible recipes that
How a neural net makes cookies

How a neural net makes cookies

The other day I trained a neural net to generate the names of cookies [http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks] , based on about 1,000 existing recipes. The resulting names (Quitterbread Bars, Hand Buttersacks, Low Fuzzy Feats, and more) were both delightfully weird and strangely plausible. People even invented delicious
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