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nothing to worry about. it's only mutant fly strains invented by a neural net
aiweirdness.com/post/186072231… Macho man: likes to punch<br /> Jungle fire: Any of several genes that makes the flies more prone to fires.<br /> Chocolate eye: The fly that drinks and stumbles when eating candy.<br /> Jingle Bells: Does not speak but sings<br /> The last Emperor: Has a huge black mustache<br /> Unicorn faced: A gene that prevents flies from developing fly traits.<br /> Lana: Her eyes are covered by a large purple cloud
the neural net's most intense fly mutants are a bit beyond my artistic abilities but I would love to know what they look like Chocolate Corn Cone: Has six heads. It’s made out of chocolate and corn (in addition to the brains from its victims).<br /> <br /> Lemondogs: The fruit flies from the American Southwest who were responsible for killing the dinosaurs and driving scientists crazy years earlier. As a consequence they evolved into the same kind of insect that scientists now recognize today as the Lommy Beetle, the “mammal-sized flea” from the Southw
the neural net's task was to add to a list of 4 example mutations. This is the 1st task where I've seen a noticeable difference between 117M and 345M GPT-2. 117M doesn't get it. (via minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-smal…)
The larger 345M often manages. (via talktotransformer.com) Virtus: No. Fishes have no breath.<br /> Tina: There is no food left.<br /> The Dragon Is Burning: Hormones.<br /> The Dragon's Lair: The lair of the dragon.<br /> Prayer of Pain: This is what we will do next.<br /> Prayer of Light: After praying this, I will open fire on anyone.<br /> The Night Star: A star's shadow.<br /> Tina will fly to the sky once<br /> The Night of the Lion: A dream world.<br /> The Night: A fairy's world. <br /> The Night of the Lion: A fairy's loveTiny Hatter: Finesse is too strong.<br /> Grim Reaper: Does not get the joke.<br /> Hawkman: Cannot swim.<br /> Jackpot: Loses an arm and leg in a single punch.<br /> Candy Cane: No longer a criminal.<br /> Raghead: Must die of old age.<br /> Deadbeats: Death must follow.<br /> Shapeshifter: Can turn.<br /> Chameleon: Has become a man of sorts.<br /> The Pigeon: Is not a human.<br /> Wasp Girl: In the jungle, when a man goes missing, flies follow him. No way back.
here's what another neural net, Grover, does when prompted to generate fruit fly mutants. Here the prompt is different since I just gave it the article titles, so Grover is free to do more elaborate descriptions.
(via grover.allenai.org) Yucatan fruit fly Nemophilophila nepheleti<br /> <br /> Played host to one of Madagascar’s most famous thespians, author Ernest Hemingway, in May, 1964. This insect is the largest fruit fly of the New World. Native to Mexico and Central America, it can infest a kitchen in days and even confuse pears for pineapple. In 2016, it was observed in Los Angeles for the first time, and in November 2017, it was found in New York City—this
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7,500 pictures that image recognition algorithms tend to get wrong. My kind of dataset.
Interesting examples of image recognition algorithms being fooled by color, texture, and background cues.
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Fascinated by the way this crochet-trained neural net deals with non-crochet prompts.
Since HAT3000 started out as vanilla GPT-2 345M trained on huge sections on the internet, it still remembers how to generate stories and fan fiction. But now it tries its hardest to gradually turn them into crochet hat patterns. Prompt: Darth Vader clenched his fist.<br /> <br /> Darth Vader clenched his fist. “I am not the Darth,” he cried, throwing his hood up and closing his eyes tight. “I am not… you do not know me, you do not recognize me, and I am not supposed to share who I am with you… only that I know you are not supposed to make these fools of yourselves!”<br /> <br /> The Force touched him and his smile widened. “I am Alderaan,” he said, glancing at the
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