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AI Weirdness

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  • Giddy up, it's Botober 2026

    They're racehorse names generated by a very tiny neural net trained only on 42,000 horses from the Jockey Club.

    AI Weirdness2 min read

  • Bonus: Rejected Racehorses

    For AI Weirdness supporters - a list of rejected racehorse names, generated by a very small neural network.

    AI Weirdness1 min read

  • Laser gems

    So apparently laser crystals that are rejected from laser-making can end up in the gem trade and they look amazing!

    AI Weirdness2 min read

  • The lasers in Clash of the Titans

    They used lasers for the god rays of Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981) and I don't care what you say about the rest of the movie, the lasers are doing great.

    AI Weirdness2 min read

  • Laser Jeans

    Apparently they use lasers to put the wear marks in jeans now? Amazing.

    AI Weirdness2 min read

  • I made a hologram!

    See! Real holograms! Dice and crystals that aren't there any more, thanks to the power of lasers!!1!

    AI Weirdness3 min read

  • Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower

    Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!" Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for a dramatic effect.Tower of Pancakes: Create a giant stack of pancakes and

    AI Weirdness5 min read

  • Bonus: More April Fools pranks from Eiffel Tower Llama

    In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that helps me pay web hosting fees and other things I need to keep AI Weirdness running.

    AI Weirdness1 min read

  • When a chatbot runs your store

    You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit or delete entire databases. Whether this sounds like a good idea depends in part on how bad

    AI Weirdness3 min read

  • Bonus: Incorrect Christmas Carols

    In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that helps me pay web hosting fees and other things I need to keep AI Weirdness running.

    AI Weirdness1 min read

  • 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

    AI Weirdness3 min read

  • More tiny neural net costumes

    In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that helps me pay web hosting fees and other things I need to keep AI Weirdness running.

    AI Weirdness1 min read

  • 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

    AI Weirdness2 min read

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