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Which neural net has the best hallucinations?
Ville-Matias Heikkilä posted four trips to YouTube, each the work of a different "DeepDreaming"-style neural network (based on the Caffe deep learning framework) but the same source image. Before...
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Magic cards generated by neural networks
@RoboRosewater is a twitter account that posts, once a day, a Magic: The Gathering card generated by a recurrent neural network. [via Ditto] This is an implementation of the science described by Vice's...
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An AI wrote a Christmas song
It's not bad. In fact, this is a triumph: a Christmas song written entirely by an artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto. Yet it has that uncanny neural network je ne sais quoi in...
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Rhymes from a high-schooler's machine learning system trained on Kanye lyrics
Robbie Barrat is president and founder of their high school computer science club; they created Rapper-Neural-Network, a free software project that uses machine learning trained on a corpus of 6,000...
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Neural network comes up with crazy food recipes
In her spare time, University of California, San Diego engineer Janelle Shane trained a neural network to generate recipes for new dishes. Informed by its reading of existing recipes, the neural...
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The weird poetry Google Translate writes when fed the same characters over...
@Smutclyde Google Translated sequences of unicode characters and short pairings, at varying lengths, to see what the neural networks would interpret each as. The results are remarkable. Lovecraftian...
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Dungeons & Dragons spells created by a neural network
Neural networks, it is said, cannot explain their decisions. Which is probably a good thing, at least when it comes to the machine mind's ideas for new Dungeons & Dragons spells, as guided by...
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How one Lego reseller built an artificial intelligence to sort bricks
Jacques Mattheij hoped to make some cash buying cheap boxes of used, unsorted Lego that he'd organize into more valuable assortments for resale. After acquiring two metric tons of bricks, he was...
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AI paint color names improving, sort of
The AI paint name generator (previously) has refined its preferences. Though still very bad at naming paint colors, there seems to be (to my mind) an emerging personality, one that has beliefs and,...
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My Little Ponies generated by neural network
Janelle Shane trained a neural network on the names and attributes of My Little Ponies, then shared "some of the worst ones." I used a program called a character-level recurrent neural network...
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What happens when a neural network proposes legislation?
In her delightful blog AI Weirdness, Janelle Shane entered 18,458 unique bills introduced in Massachusetts into a neural network, which then created some rather hilarious bills, including: (more…)
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Robbie Barrat's AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a...
Robbie Barrat is generating warped, surreal paintings using artificial intelligence and the results are really something. Usually the machine just paints people as blobs of flesh with tendrils and...
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What happens when you feed Trump's "I WANT NOTHING" note to a Neural Network?
Donald Trump's desperate PR attempt "speech" from this morning read kind of like the lyric sheet from some obscure Radiohead-wannabe art-rock band. So naturally, comedian Emily Heller took it to the...
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Neural network restores and colorizes old movies
From the excellent "Two Minute Papers" YouTube channel, a discussion of a paper titled "DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement," that...
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Neural network turns 24 fps videos into smooth, clear 60 fps
The latest episode of Two Minute Papers discusses a new video enhancement method called "Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation" to increase the frame rate of choppy videos. The breakthrough here is...
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Neural network makes 3D images from still pictures
Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang, and Feng Liu developed software that gives a 3D Ken Burns effect to still images. From their paper: Experiments with a wide variety of image content show that our...
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This AI's only function is to draw penises
DICK-RNN is a recurrent neural network trained with 10,000 doodles of dicks. You start drawing a shape and the AI tries its best to finish it as a penis. Starting with the balls helps a lot. Try it....
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How neural networks work – A good explainer video
How does a neural network connect perceptions to concepts? In other words, how can you make something that accepts an array of pixels as an input and correctly outputs "dog" or "cat?" This video from...
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Old footage of Tokyo upscaled using neural networks, colorized and...
Denis Shiryaev writes that this footage, filmed in Tokyo between 1913-1915 as "Japan of Today", was upscaled using neural networks. ✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second, I have also fixed some...
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Someone trained an AI neural network to generate Apocalyptic Bible prophecies
As if Reality2020 wasn't horrifying enough, George Davila fed the King James Bible into a Boltzmannian natural-language processing model. He then asked the AI to write in the King James style about...
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