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Janelle Shane
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I'm so excited to finally announce this: there's going to be an AI Weirdness book!!

aiweirdness.com/post/186656280… You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why it's Making the World a Weirder Place<br /> Coming November 5th, 2019<br /> <br /> A fun pop-science look at what artificial intelligence is and how it works.<br /> <br /> Contains:<br /> - LOTS of cartoons<br /> - phantom giraffes<br /> - accidental murderbots<br /> - magical sandwich holes<br /> - real-life applications
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You (title by a neural net trained to generate pickup lines) will be out Nov 5. (!!!!)

If you're planning to buy it sometime, a preorder really helps!
Amazon: amazon.com/gp/product/031…
BN: barnesandnoble.com/w/you-look-lik…
Indiebound: indiebound.org/book/978031652… You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
When I was trying to come up with a title for the AI Weirdness book, I tried training a neural net to generate them.

There were a LOT of rejected titles.

aiweirdness.com/post/186656280… Strange Serve<br /> Butter Chapters<br /> NOT Chocolate<br /> The Doom of Humans<br /> The Million Murders Book<br /> Kevin<br /> Everything Moon<br /> Horses of Pants!<br /> The Book of Pies<br /> Hello, You Colons<br /> The sign of Fart<br /> Swearing Machine
Please use talktotransformer.com to add to this list of things in the book

Contains:
1. real-life applications
2. LOTS of cartoons
3. phantom giraffes
4. accidental murderbots
5. magical sandwich holes
this is the completion the neural net gave me. struggling to express what exactly about this is so disturbing. - real-life murder<br /> - death by a cartoon<br /> - magic killer sandwiches<br />
— A message from Hiccup and his friends on their last meal.


The Real Life Meal is a fictional meal delivered by Hiccup to his friend Bubblegum, after asking why he didn't come on a real date with his parents. As they are sharing the meal, the waiter is suddenly interrupted with a "Hey!" from Bubblegum after explaining he does not have a driver's l" src="/images/1px.png" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAwU6gfUYAI_PbW.png">
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Janelle Shane
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Can anyone who's outside the US tell me if this link works as a link to the appropriate Amazon page for my book?
a-fwd.com/asin-com=03165…
Testing to see whether I can use affiliate-geo-target.com to send people to my UK Amazon page in the UK, etc
Thanks, everyone! Looks like in general it works worse than a plain us link. Dang.
Can you try this link? mybook.to/YouLookLikeATh…
(ht @johnayliff for the recommendation)
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I used @runwayml to reconstruct this scene from The Last Jedi by having DeepLab recognize all the objects in each frame, and then having SPADE try to paint the original frame from the objects.
@runwayml More on the reconstruction process here: aiweirdness.com/post/186539822…
This is the first step, where DeepLab segments an image into objects. "Lightsaber" is not a category it has, so it improvises. luke skywalker holding a lightsaberluke is labeled person, background is mostly labeled wall, and lightsaber is labeled baseball bat
@runwayml Next, SPADE has to paint a picture just from DeepLab's labeled image. It sees person with a baseball bat, so it looks a lot like it tried to paint Luke in a baseball jersey. luke is labeled person, background is mostly labeled wall, and lightsaber is labeled baseball batluke has a blob of a face, a pixelated tshirt, and blue hair
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Janelle Shane
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So excited our paper is out! And written up by @carlzimmer! I personally calibrated the device in the picture, a programmable hologram that steers laser beams to zap neurons.
Our collaborators at Stanford eavesdropped on neuron activity while mice were seeing vertical stripe patterns. When they later displayed nothing but activated some of those same neurons by zapping them with laser beams, the mice acted as if they were still seeing stripes.
They don't know if the mice were seeing the original stripe pattern exactly. Maybe they were only seeing something that resembled stripes enough that the mice could figure out that they were supposed to do their pipe-licking thing, just like with real stripes.
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