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AI Weirdness is a popular science blog created by Janelle Shane, a research scientist and humorist known for making artificial intelligence fun and accessible. Its RSS feed features quirky experiments and playful explorations of AI models, often showcasing bizarre or unexpected outputs from neural networks. Posts might highlight funny image generations, surreal text completions, or odd dataset-driven behaviors. The writing style is witty and approachable, making complex concepts understandable to a general audience. While not focused on technical tutorials, the blog succeeds in demystifying AI and sparking curiosity about how algorithms work behind the scenes. With posts appearing a few times per month, this feed is perfect for readers looking for entertaining yet insightful commentary on AI’s stranger side, blending education with humor.
- 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 dataset from 2018,
- 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 worse) but
- 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 just
- 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
- Bonus: In Which The Adventurer Attempts to Build a Website