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Janelle Shane


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While moonlighting as a research scientist, Janelle Shane found fame documenting the often hilarious antics of AI algorithms.

Janelle Shane's humor blog, AIweirdness.com, looks at, as she tells it, "the strange side of artificial intelligence." Her upcoming book, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place, uses cartoons and humorous pop-culture experiments to look inside the minds of the algorithms that run our world, making artificial intelligence and machine learning both accessible and entertaining.

According to Shane, she has only made a neural network-written recipe once -- and discovered that horseradish brownies are about as terrible as you might imagine.
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Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?Like other ambiguous image-generation prompts, asking for “a...

Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?

Like other ambiguous image-generation prompts, asking for “a gothic wardrobe” had the AI hedging its bets.In CLIP+VQGAN’s internet training, those words might go with pictures of clothes in styles leaning toward black fabric, pleats, chains, and lace. Or they could mean tall cabinets with pointed arches. So we get both:

Adding more detail to the prompt reduces ambig

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Published on July 23, 2021 08:00
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You Look Like a Thing and I...

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“Treating a decision as impartial just because it came from an AI is known sometimes as mathwashing or bias laundering.”
Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

“Then [the AI] guesses that o is often followed by ck. Gold. It has made some progress. Behold its idea of the perfect joke:

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Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place



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