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275: Don't Do What the Computer Tells You (Repeat)

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2021 70:14


Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for paint colors, ice cream, and cocktails (and many other things). We never said they were good ideas. Janelle's FAQ will help you get started trying out RNNs yourself. We recommend the Embedded show titles. We talked about BigGAN which generates pictures based on input images. Wikipedia list of animals by number of neurons Janelle's book is You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. Sign up for her newsletter to get the PG-13 versions of her hilarious AI outputs.

Permanently Moved
301 - 2132 - The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art

Permanently Moved

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2021 5:02


S04E32 Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN's to create art. What comes out when I put this thing in?  Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2021/08/28/301-2132-the-prompt-in-interactive-fiction-and-ai-art/ Watch 301 on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/jayspringett Support: https://thejaymo.net/support/ Webshow: http://comeinternetwith.me Website: https://www.thejaymo.net/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo

Robots on Typewriters
Episode 143: Lamb Showboat

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 45:32


We’re finally back… This week, we talk about a (now old) AiWeirdness post introducing us to some rather interesting men.…

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Robots on Typewriters
Episode 138: Inspector Roboto & Mr. Oscar

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 52:54


This week, we check back in with some recent AiWeirdness content and then, return to an old friend who seems…

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Skype a Scientist Live
AI/You Look Like a Thing and I Love You with Janelle Shane

Skype a Scientist Live

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 43:59


​Janelle Shane's AI humor blog, AIweirdness.com, looks at the strange side of artificial intelligence. She has been featured on the main TED stage, in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Popular Science, All Things Considered, Science Friday, and Marketplace. Her book, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works, Thinks, 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. Shane is also a research scientist at an optics R&D company, where she has worked on projects including a holographic laser tweezers module for the space station, and a virtual reality arena for mantis shrimp.

Wild Business Growth Podcast
#98: Janelle Shane – AI Weirdness, Artificial Intelligence Adventurer

Wild Business Growth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 55:49


Janelle Shane, the Optics Research Scientist and Creator of the AI Weirdness blog, joins the show to share her experiments that showcase the strange side of artificial intelligence. Hear what the future of AI means for our businesses and personal lives, Janelle’s most memorable AI Weirdness experiments, where we see AI in everyday life, how AI works, and the record Janelle set in college. Connect with Janelle at AIWeirdness.com, JanelleShane.com, on social media at @JanelleCShane and @Janelle.Shane, and buy her book at your local bookstore

Inside The Newsroom with Daniel Levitt
#79 — Janelle Shane (AIWeirdness.com)

Inside The Newsroom with Daniel Levitt

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 52:01


Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom! Today’s podcast is the first in a while, so it felt great to get back on the horse and devour some knowledge. Today’s guest is Janelle Shane, research scientist in artificial intelligence, and author of the recently-published You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, a book about the weirdest artificial intelligence out there. We got into all sorts of AI questions and even had a discussion on trucks with giant testicles dangling down from the back of them, so whatever you’re into there’s something for everyone. In all seriousness, AI is crucial yet so misunderstood, so I’m hoping the podcast above and newsletter below go some way in breaking down barriers for understanding its place in this world. Enjoy 🤓Job CornerSeveral deadlines coming up in the next few days, including at CBC, ITV, The Independent and The Texas Tribune. Check out almost 400 active journalism jobs, internships and freelance contracts. Please spread the word.Who is Janelle Shane?Janelle is a research scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, TED2019 speaker, and author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, a book on how AI works and why it’s making the world weirder. The book is an expansion of Janelle’s popular blog, aiweirdness.com, which makes fun at some of the stranger AI trends and innovations, like cockroaches being able to masquerade as giraffes to fool security. Janelle’s also written for The New York Times, Popular Science and Slate.Buy the book 👇❤️Like What You See?❤️Each podcast and newsletter takes about 12 hours to put together, so please like this edition of Inside The Newsroom by clicking the little heart up top. That way I’ll appear in clever algorithms and more people will be able to read. Cheers.You Look Like a Thing and I Love YouJanelle published her first book late last year titled You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, a book on how AI works and why it’s making the world a weirder place. Maybe it’s me and the line of work I’m in, but AI is more often than not associated with negatives, such as machines taking our jobs, racist algorithms, or fatal self-driving cars crashes. While there’s certainly cause for concern over the outcomes of machines overstepping the mark in terms of invading our privacy and threatening our security, it’s of course us humans programming AI that’s the problem. In the same vein, Janelle looks at some of the weirder AIs that humans have created, such as truck nuts…Truck nuts you ask? Yeah I did a double take too. One of the things I love about America is some people’s inability to control their testosterone, and the latest way this group of people are displaying their manliness is by dangling a pair of giant testicles from the back of their trucks. But in fine fashion, the AI from a Tesla recently recognized the oversized nuts as a traffic cone, a beautiful reminder of AI’s naivety and that we can all reduce some individuals with overflowing arousal to a traffic cone. What is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?Pinching this next bit from my podcast with Francesco Marconi, former R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal and now co-founder of Applied XLabs. The never ending rise of power and influence of technology companies in our lives means we hear and read about terms such as artificial intelligence and machine learning seemingly every day. AI as we know it arguably started in the first half of the 20th century, just as computers were gaining steam. While AI and ML are closely linked and overlap in many ways, they are different.Artificial intelligence is:The overarching umbrella term for the simulation of human intelligence in machines programmed to think like humans and mimic our actions.Whereas machine learning is:The concept that a computer program can learn and adapt to new data without human interference. Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence that keeps a computer’s algorithms current regardless of external changes. For example, autocorrect or self-driving cars.Essentially, you need AI researchers to build the smart machines, and you need machine learning experts to make them super intelligent. You can’t have one without the other.Is AI Misunderstood? 🤔This is a question that’s been rattling around my brain for months now, and is one I’m starting to understand better the more I dissect its pros and cons. Like many of you reading, I got swept up in the fear and hysteria over automation eliminating up to 800 millions jobs in the next decade, paranoid that the machines are coming to get us! Like with most things in life, the more I learn about AI and the more experts I talk to on the podcast, the more I realize that AI can and should be a helluva lot less intimidating than it’s currently perceived.Two main factors come to mind that give AI a bad name. Firstly, as we discussed earlier, when AI does bad things, whether it’s intentional or unintentional, human decisions are behind it, such as the Chinese government’s decision to spy on its citizens and give everyone a social credit score based on trivial offences such as jaywalking. Automation has shaped economies for centuries. Whether it was the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th century that sent factory production soaring, or the invention of the internet that has all but killed off the printing press, people have lost jobs due to machines for as long as we can remember. But that’s not the problem — free markets will always endeavour to find savings. Which brings us onto the second point. The problem has been dormant governments failing to react quick enough to changing industries, if at all. Across the Midwest and South, economic wastelands have sprung up over the past decade because federal and state governments failed to reinvest in these communities through teaching people necessary skills, and through a lack of incentive to keep innovative companies at home. And in the UK, jobs left empty because of Brexit will ironically be filled by robots. Until we truly understand what automation is and what it can do, the stigma around AI will only become dirtier. Credit: Axios 👇Which Country Is Best At AI?Like with most areas of life, I love a good bloody index to show who’s better than who on a particular subject. While rankings are just rankings, they do provide a decent snapshot of which country prioritises certain issues over others. When it comes to AI, Tortoise Media’s index looks at the level of investment, innovation and actual implementation of AI by country, while Stanford University’s index looks at the vibrancy of each nation including public perception and societal considerations. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. and China, the world’s two largest economies, are number one and two on both indices.Source: Tortoise Media 👇Delving into the U.S. deeper, researchers at Stanford concluded that while larger states with the biggest economies may not be at the top of the standings in terms of AI job growth, that’s because they’ve already had their AI surge. It’s part of the reason they’re still at the top. Oil also helps… Talking of which, oil-rich states such as North Dakota and Wyoming have seen AI jobs in their states boom of the past decade, and goes to show that you don’t need to be in California or New York to jump into AI.Related podcasts…#77 — Francesco Marconi (Newlab) on artificial intelligence and its role in the future of journalism#72 — Ryan Broderick (BuzzFeed) on the 15th anniversary of YouTube#70 — Amy Webb (Future Today Institute) on the lack of government preparation for the coronavirus and the latest 2020 technology trends#61 — Rachel Botsman (Trust Issues) on the why people believe fake newsLast week … 🇺🇸 America's Protests: We Must Now Focus on Voter SuppressionThanks for making it all the way to the bottom. Please like and share this edition of Inside The Newsroom by clicking the ❤️ below. That way I’ll appear in clever algorithms and more people will be able to read.If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing to get a newsletter about a cool news topic in your inbox every time I publish (1-2 times a week). You can find me on Twitter at @DanielLevitt32 and email me corrections/feedback or even a guest you’d like me to get on the podcast at daniellevitt32@gmail.com. Get on the email list at insidethenewsroom.substack.com

Feminist Frequency Radio
89: Time Travel and Feminism with Annalee Newitz

Feminist Frequency Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2019 57:44


Time travel is such a powerful fictional device. It allows creators to shine a light on the cultural struggles and social ills of the present by making powerful connections with the past, and by offering wonderful or horrifying visions of the future. Of course, it can also just be a whole lot of fun! But time travel is uniquely powerful as a tool for feminist writers; after all, feminism has always fought to prevent women’s contributions from being written out of history. Time travel allows for stories in which women struggle not just to gain power but to regain their place in time itself. With special guest author and journalist Annalee Newitz! Time Stamps: 03:55 - Main Segment 47:09 - What’s Your FREQ Outs Links Mentioned: Our opinions are correct https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com and https://www.patreon.com/ouropinionsarecorrect Why are you laughing at Bruce Lee? by Walter Chaw https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/on-bruce-lees-character-in-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.html Annalee’s webowebs: www.annaleenewitz.com / @annaleen on twitter Future of Another Timeline, by Annalee Newitz: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765392121 Grape Ape music video based on Future of Another Timeline: https://youtu.be/5Avc8qqRVc0 Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson (https://publishing.tor.com/godsmonstersandtheluckypeach-kellyrobson/9781250163844/) This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-How-You-Lose-the-Time-War/Amal-El-Mohtar/9781534431003) Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (https://www.mikechenbooks.com/book/here-and-now-and-then/) “All You Zombies” by Robert Heinlein (https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a281bb7e1a24c6c2ea0c) You Look Like a Thing and I love you by Janelle Shane (https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/janelle-shane/you-look-like-a-thing-and-i-love-you/9781549171529/), also her blog AIWeirdness.com Follow Us: Join our Patreon Community https://www.patreon.com/femfreq Our Website https://feministfrequency.com/ Subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feminist-frequency-radio/id1307153574?mt=2 Twitter https://twitter.com/femfreq Instagram https://www.instagram.com/femfreq/ Youtube http://bit.ly/2bDhQUX

Robots on Typewriters
Episode 59: Slappy Robinson

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019


This week, we get cozy and talk about the collaboration between Janelle Shane and Ravelry, SkyKnit. Then, it’s the second…

Robots on Typewriters
Episode 52: High Hall of Human Wretchedness

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 43:56


This week, Allison and Justin share some hilarious new petitions Janelle Shane partnered with Change.org to make using GTP-2. Then,…

Robots on Typewriters
Episode 45: Kentucky Yummy Smoke

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2019 74:39


This week, Justin gives an update on the future of his Twitter bot assignment and talks about a recent AiWeirdness…

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275: Don’t Do What the Computer Tells You

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2019 70:15


Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for paint colors, ice cream, and cocktails (and many other things). We never said they were good ideas. Janelle’s FAQ will help you get started trying out RNNs yourself. We recommend the Embedded show titles. We talked about BigGAN which generates pictures based on input images. Wikipedia list of animals by number of neurons Janelle’s upcoming book is You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to order it (as well as getting the PG-13 versions of her hilarious AI outputs).

Robots on Typewriters
Episode 26: Our NN or Your NN? w/ Janelle Shane

Robots on Typewriters

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2018 49:11


This week, we are joined by the lovely, enlightening Janelle Shane of aiweirdness.com, known for her hilarious, endearing, and creative…