Bacteriophage chair
germanpostwarmodern : The “Peacock” Chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, in 1921-22 Bacteriophage chair
AI Weirdness
Welcome to my humor blog about artificial intelligence. I write about the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that machine learning algorithms get things wrong.
Latest posts
My life has gotten measurably better since I reframed the period from 3-4 pm as “puttering hour”. No…
majestictortoise : puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren’t being…
no clue if you’ve seen it or not but there’s a currently unfolding story where someone denied an autonomous ai’s code contribution, and it published a callout post on the maintainer
yes! still thinking about this one. i think the maintainer was right to call it kind of a big deal. i ended up writing a whole blog post about it
but how will we know it’s the visible light range unless it’s staring intensely back at us?
ALT but how will we know it’s the visible light range unless it’s staring intensely back at us? source
AI agents that email other people and post on other people’s websites are cursed and we shouldn’t…
ALT AI agents that email other people and post on other people’s websites are cursed and we shouldn’t make them .
finally i have learned how to type laser sounds//
themysteriousmurasamecastle : finally i have learned how to type laser sounds//
April Fools prank ideas generated by one of those generic internet-trained large language model…
ALT April Fools prank ideas generated by one of those generic internet-trained large language model thingies, except one of its neurons has been silently tweaked to hugely increase its response to the concept of the Eiffel Tower. That made a bunch of other things weirder and now it sometimes trails off into word salad but I still think it’s an improvement. Read more
It’s time once more
aiweirdness : AI-generated Christmas entities I wondered what kinds of new Christmas entities might result if I gave a list of Krampus, Rudolph, The Yule Cat, and Meathook (one of the Yule Lads; not as terrifying as he sounds) and short descriptions to GPT-3, a neural net trained on internet text. New Christmas entities, perhaps, for our modern age? ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Bonus content…
I hid crucial information in the tags, namely that Claudius the betta fish is just fine and lives in…
aiweirdness : The company Anthropic reported that they let a chatbot “Claude” run their company store. It could chat with employees and run internet searches to decide what products to stock and how to price them. Claude: Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss Invented conversations with…
The company Anthropic reported that they let a chatbot “Claude” run their company store. It could…
The company Anthropic reported that they let a chatbot “Claude” run their company store. It could chat with employees and run internet searches to decide what products to stock and how to price them. Claude: Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss Invented conversations with employees who did…
Yes so that was because GPT-2 generated this carol
literary-potato : aiweirdness : Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net trained from scratch on my laptop The story of the chimney see Santa baby, and blood and joyous so world and joy and good will to see Santa baby bore sweet Jesus Christ Fa la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la. King of toys and hippopotamuses [sic] full of the light of that stood at the dear Son of Santa…
Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net trained from scratch on my laptop
Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net trained from scratch on my laptop The story of the chimney see Santa baby, and blood and joyous so world and joy and good will to see Santa baby bore sweet Jesus Christ Fa la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la. King of toys and hippopotamuses [sic] full of the light of that stood at the dear Son of Santa Claus He was born in a wonderful…
Botober day 28 - 1 teaspoon flup
sheppyscribbles : ALT Botober day 28 - 1 teaspoon flup
Thanks to the people who helped me update the tiny neural net’s halloween costume training data for…
Thanks to the people who helped me update the tiny neural net’s halloween costume training data for 2025 I now have a new version trained! Well it still doesn’t know how to complete the phrase “Kpop ” but it was a good try Kpop dumpster Kpop and the American cheese Kpop Assassin Kpop of Wood Kpop of Shop Kpop grocerie Kpop Egg Kpop of Halloween worker It also did these A…
Botober day 19: grated pan
sheppyscribbles : ALT Botober day 19: grated pan
So you need a fresh costume idea. Don’t ask chatgpt!
So you need a fresh costume idea. Don’t ask chatgpt! no what you need is one of these costumes The Skypug Hungry Boats Mid wonka Burderous bread cat Holy Cheesarenda Moth fairy A magicial slice Fall wearing monster The Godfish tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes best quality costumes guaranteed
13. Pickled cubiwery
monoclegeoffchard : 13. Pickled cubiwery Yes, I’m British. Yes, we do have infinite words for drunk. ALT
If you don’t spather using light back and forth motion, the tribble fur pills like crazy
rebecca2525 : Botober day 15: lightly spather spather = spank + lather I guess? If you don’t spather using light back and forth motion, the tribble fur pills like crazy
The trees are actually a single organism connected by a sophisticated network of underground…
botober-only : ALT Botober Gastrobotics Day 8: ground mayonnaise Plate Land, where the trees are broccoli and the ground is mayonnaise! Did I finish it? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Yes. Would I make it again? No. The trees are actually a single organism connected by a sophisticated network of underground mayonnaise. More complex than fungal mycorrhizae, the MayoNet allows the trees to share streaming…
The Summoning of Onions
marzipanrabbit : The Summoning of Onions