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AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
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Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower
Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!" Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for a dramatic effect. Tower of Pancakes: Create a giant stack of pancakes and
Bonus: More April Fools pranks from Eiffel Tower Llama
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit or delete entire databases . Whether this sounds like a good idea depends in part on how bad
Bonus: Incorrect Christmas Carols
Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best
I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it. A little while ago I revisited a
More tiny neural net costumes
Halloween costumes by tiny neural net
I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside references to draw on (for better or for
Bonus: more halloween costumes from tiny neural net
Botober 2025: Terrible recipes from a tiny neural net
After seeing generated text evolve from the days of tiny neural networks to today's ChatGPT-style large language models, I have to conclude: there's something special about the tiny guys. Maybe it's the way the tiny neural networks string together text letter by letter
Bonus: Char-rnn's jello creations
ChatGPT will apologize for anything
ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.
Revised instructions for troubleshooting the warp confabulator
Minecraft with object impermanence
I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of