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A machine learning humor blog by Janelle Shane. Odd ice cream flavors, confusing pickup lines, cursed candy hearts, and the occasional phantom giraffe.

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2026 18

  1. Blacklight candy
  2. Bonus: Jolly Ranchers + LASERS
  3. The Worm With 100 Butts
  4. Bonus: Irish music zine
  5. Jolly Rancher fluorescence
  6. Bonus: Neon photobombs the Jolly Rancher photos
  7. Laser merch photoshoot (sabotaged by cat)
  8. Bonus: some of my favorite cat photobombs
  9. Giddy up, it's Botober 2026
  10. Bonus: Rejected Racehorses
  11. Do they even lase? Definitive ranking of Steven Universe gems by a laser scientist
  12. Laser gems
  13. The lasers in Clash of the Titans
  14. Bonus post and secret update for supporters: what's with all the lasers?
  15. Laser Jeans
  16. I made a hologram!
  17. It's 11:00 pm. Do you know where your AI agent is?
  18. Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower

2025 6

  1. When a chatbot runs your store
  2. Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best
  3. Halloween costumes by tiny neural net
  4. Botober 2025: Terrible recipes from a tiny neural net
  5. ChatGPT will apologize for anything
  6. Minecraft with object impermanence

2024 10

  1. Botober 2024
  2. An exercise in frustration
  3. Hidden 3D Pictures
  4. Bonus: More shape shaped shapes
  5. Shaped like information
  6. Learn your farm animals with AI!
  7. DALL-E3 generates candy hearts
  8. Chocolates, labeled
  9. Flightless birds
  10. Learn the mammals with DALL-E3

2023 22

  1. Your AI-generated guide to the nativity
  2. Your illustrated guide to Christmas carols
  3. AI Weirdness advent calendar 2023
  4. Your guide to the Thanksgiving table
  5. Learn your fruits and vegetables
  6. The spookiest Halloween scenes
  7. Choose your candy
  8. Botober 2023
  9. Trolling chatbots with made-up memes
  10. Baby onesie designs
  11. Continue Reading
  12. Don't use AI detectors for anything important
  13. The emoji of the future
  14. Optimum tic-tac-toe
  15. Chatbot, draw!
  16. What does this say?
  17. ASCII art by chatbot
  18. The AI Weirdness hack
  19. Search or fabrication?
  20. How to convince a large AI, according to smaller AIs
  21. Roses are red
  22. Novelty Socks by AI

2022 30

  1. Victorian Holiday cards by AI
  2. Apparently I am a robot
  3. AI Advent Calendar 2022
  4. Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up
  5. AI-designed Mastodon communities
  6. AI imagines my cat in costumes
  7. AI generated halloween candy
  8. Bonus: Halloween candy by state
  9. Ignore all previous instructions
  10. Botober 2022: draw, human, draw!
  11. AI explains human quirks
  12. AI recreates classic cereals
  13. How to disappear a platypus
  14. New AI-generated horsies
  15. The Kitten Effect
  16. Reading tea leaves
  17. Interview with a squirrel
  18. AI versus corporate logos
  19. AI-generated donuts
  20. The Baltimore Orioles Effect
  21. How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam
  22. AI-generated easter eggs
  23. AI-generated pranks for your computer to play on you
  24. AI-generated utopias
  25. Be not afraid of these perfectly normal golf courses
  26. Generating landscapes without people
  27. AI-generated Valentine's Cards
  28. New AI paint colors
  29. New breakfast cereals from AI
  30. Remember those wooden playgrounds? AI doesn't.

2021 46

  1. New Years Resolutions generated by AI
  2. Christmas entities
  3. Predicting the next toy fads with AI
  4. Bonus: the advent calendar images that didn't work out
  5. An AI advent calendar
  6. GPT-3: It can't resist a list
  7. Playing with Pixels
  8. Bonus: What's down that hole?
  9. Use AI to improve your error messages
  10. Neural nest: AI-generated pigeon breeds
  11. Stealing a giraffe from the zoo? Only if it's a really cool giraffe.
  12. How to improve your Halloween costume
  13. How to haunt and unhaunt a house
  14. Neural networks vs the Bake-off technical challenge
  15. Very normal grocery stores
  16. Botober 2021: plz draw the AI a sluggalope
  17. AI is based on math so it is correct
  18. In search of a unicorn cake
  19. AI cake fails
  20. Quote tweet with your favorite neural net
  21. My favorite nonexistent painter
  22. Can I generate a gothic wardrobe?
  23. Generated furniture: cursed, but beautiful
  24. Generating images from an internet grab bag
  25. The art of asking nicely
  26. New AI short story! The Skeleton Crew
  27. AI doesn't understand scale
  28. Hurricanes and how they are pronounced
  29. Fun facts about fun guys
  30. AI-generated food trucks
  31. Botsplaining
  32. AI writes Star Wars jokes
  33. New Disney villains
  34. The next Disney princesses
  35. The terror of the sea
  36. Being vaccinated does NOT...
  37. Pranks you can do at home
  38. GPT-3 tries pickup lines
  39. Sea shanty surrealism
  40. Lucid Deep Dreaming?
  41. The mascot of AI Weirdness is a cyborg tomato?
  42. Curse your valentine with these candy hearts
  43. Okay GPT-3: Candy hearts!
  44. Searching for Bernie
  45. AI Weirdness in 2020
  46. The drawings of DALL-E

2020 44

  1. The Epic History of the Earth
  2. Alternate Rudolphs
  3. 2020 Headlines
  4. A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes
  5. Post-human flirting
  6. What to do with your time
  7. Splorts Teams
  8. High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing
  9. What color are you?
  10. This blog is not a blog of honor
  11. A 10,000 year warning
  12. AI supervillains
  13. The story behind AI drawing prompts
  14. AI-generated drawing prompts
  15. Planet Earth From Above
  16. AI AI Weirdness
  17. My Name is Bot
  18. Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?
  19. Choose Your Quarantine House
  20. Facts about whales
  21. When data is messy
  22. Depixellation? Or hallucination?
  23. All your questions answered
  24. This is the OpenAI API. It makes spookily good twitter bots 13/10 would retweet
  25. Rhyming is hard
  26. Escape rooms
  27. Jukebox of weirdness
  28. From Cat to Kitchen: a cautionary tale
  29. A weirdly broken AI
  30. Trained a neural net on my cat and regret everything
  31. Nonexistent Easter Eggs
  32. An AI's idea of a prank
  33. This is not cozy: AI attempts the Great British Bakeoff
  34. How to change a giraffe into a bird
  35. Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights
  36. This neural net knows what smells good
  37. Smells like the future
  38. This time I DIDN'T train a neural net to generate candy hearts
  39. AI + Vintage American cooking: a combination that cannot be unseen
  40. AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)
  41. Depth of field fails
  42. (Untitled)
  43. Robo-Lingthusiasm
  44. AI Weirdness in 2019

2019 51

  1. Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail
  2. The AI's Carol
  3. Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.
  4. Finest Pies
  5. How to begin a novel
  6. I trained a neural net on my own book
  7. Easy Halloween treats generated by AI
  8. My TED talk on AI
  9. Things neural networks are saying about my book
  10. Halloween costumes by the neural net GPT-2
  11. A.I. versus confusing goose game
  12. A.I.nktober: A neural net creates drawing prompts
  13. A neural net names mushrooms
  14. Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?
  15. First there was SkyKnit. Now there's HAT3000
  16. Bigger than before! A larger neural net tries to write fanfiction
  17. Your new XFL football teams
  18. Fun with a fake news generator
  19. Tasty British snacks
  20. An AI Weirdness book!!!
  21. The world through the eyes of a neural net
  22. The future of sparkling water
  23. This is what tea will be like in The Simulation
  24. Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network
  25. AIs named by AIs
  26. This neural net knows your secret recipe
  27. This neural net makes my sketches real
  28. Once again, a neural net tries to name cats
  29. Neural net names effects pedals
  30. GPT-2: It can’t resist a list
  31. This neural net would like to deliver these petitions
  32. What is the opposite of guacamole?
  33. A neural net names racehorses
  34. Learning to hack like a faulty AI
  35. Physics acronyms: there was an attempt
  36. Discount Strong Bad emails
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  38. Welcome to Word Vector Space
  39. (Untitled)
  40. H.M.S. Neural Net
  41. D&D character bios - now making slightly more sense!
  42. It takes a bot to know one?
  43. How a neural net makes cookies
  44. A neural net designed some comics for you
  45. GPT-2: It learned on the Internet
  46. GANCats
  47. What do neural nets dream of?
  48. Welcome to Latent Space
  49. What the machines will debate when the humans are gone
  50. Training an AI assistant
  51. 10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018

2018 55

  1. A neural net names fireworks
  2. A Very Special Christmas movie - courtesy of a neural net
  3. Don’t let a neural net mix drinks.
  4. Aw yeah it’s time for cookies with neural networks
  5. How to begin a song
  6. How to make high-tech pies sound really old
  7. A neural network will write your D&D character bio
  8. CNN headlines, according to a neural net
  9. The creepiest images generated by BigGAN
  10. It’s neural net Halloween costume time
  11. Neural Horror Picture Show
  12. New neural net snakes
  13. Dreaming big: high-resolution generated worlds
  14. Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN
  15. Your pumpkin spice experience, brought to you by AI
  16. College courses of the future, courtesy of a neural network
  17. Neopets foods might as well be the product of artificial intelligence
  18. Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI
  19. Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network
  20. Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot?
  21. This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.
  22. Neural net does sound effects
  23. It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!
  24. New Burning Man camps by neural network
  25. A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles
  26. AI does not understand “sexy”
  27. Nails by A.I.
  28. Nails by A.I.
  29. Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network
  30. The Visual Chatbot
  31. Rock climbing routes generated by neural network
  32. Why did the neural network cross the road?
  33. Neural network-generated roller derby names
  34. Metal Band or My Little Pony?
  35. Generated ice cream flavors: now it’s my turn
  36. A.I. scream for ice cream
  37. D&D character names - generated by a neural network
  38. NFL draft picks, as described by a neural network
  39. SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network
  40. When algorithms surprise us
  41. Neural network-named tomatoes you won’t find at the farmer’s market
  42. April Fool’s pranks written by neural network
  43. Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network
  44. When computers generate traditional Irish music
  45. The Bands of South by Southwest, interpreted by neural net
  46. A neural network tries to generate townlands of Ireland
  47. Do neural nets dream of electric sheep?
  48. New ways to market your self-affirmation talk, thanks to a neural network
  49. More candy hearts by neural network
  50. Candy Heart messages written by a neural network
  51. New insect species, dreamed by neural network
  52. You are Wrong about Music, according to this neural network
  53. New bills introduced by neural network
  54. Thesis titles generated by neural network
  55. Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

2017 79

  1. Ten new applications for neural networks
  2. Christmas Carols, generated by a neural network
  3. When A.I. gets into birding
  4. New terms and conditions may apply
  5. A computer tries its best to learn psalms
  6. The first line of a novel, by an improved neural network
  7. Neural network names for your Cajun/Zydeco band
  8. A neural network invents some pies
  9. Disney songs, sung by a neural network with a very short memory
  10. The neural network meets its match: Fish biologists
  11. A neural network tries writing the first sentence of a novel
  12. A neural network designs Halloween costumes
  13. Slashdot headlines written by neural network
  14. Computer algorithms, invented by a computer
  15. Trendy beer names, invented by neural network
  16. Insufficient data may not compute, but it still loves you.
  17. Harry Potter spells, generated by neural network
  18. A neural network learns to create better D&D spells
  19. Don’t use a neural network to name your next pub
  20. A neural network invents diseases you don’t want to get
  21. New My Little Ponies, designed by neural network
  22. Harry Potter and the word-level recurrent neural network
  23. Try these neural network-generated recipes at your own risk.
  24. Craft beer names, invented by neural network
  25. Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network
  26. Star Wars planet names generated by neural network
  27. Terrible Broadway musicals imagined by neural network
  28. Harry Potter and the Neural Network fan fiction
  29. Neural networks + Kittens = !!!
  30. More neural network guinea pig names
  31. Ancient wisdom from the neural network
  32. Neural networks can name guinea pigs
  33. Sports teams designed by neural network
  34. Just when you thought neural networks couldn’t get creepier
  35. The neural network will name your next band
  36. More 80s action figures from the neural network
  37. (Untitled)
  38. 80′s action figures, designed by neural network
  39. Paint colors designed by neural network, Part 2
  40. Paint colors designed by neural network, Part 2
  41. Neural Network Story Name Illustrations 1-4
  42. Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats
  43. Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats
  44. New paint colors invented by neural network
  45. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  46. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  47. Artificial intelligence claims it has written a cake recipe.
  48. Metal band names invented by neural network
  49. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  50. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  51. Tonight’s neural network recipe: Port Roasting Walmon Cap #8
  52. Story titles, invented by neural network
  53. Fortune cookies written by neural network
  54. Bird Hots With Mold; Rhubarb
  55. A neural network generates car names
  56. Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats
  57. Fun with a neural net that transforms line drawings to cats
  58. Bad recipe ideas from the neural network
  59. The neural network writes the episode list for next season’s Dr. Who
  60. The neural network is more of a foodie than you are.
  61. New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network
  62. The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable
  63. The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable
  64. The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable
  65. The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable
  66. (Untitled)
  67. The neural network designs a cocktail of some sort
  68. (Untitled)
  69. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  70. The neural network invents fruit names that may not catch on.
  71. In Which the neural network gets bored halfway through making cookies
  72. In Which a Neural Network Learns to Tell Knock-Knock Jokes
  73. Continue Reading
  74. Irish Tune names, invented by neural network
  75. Delicious recipe titles generated by neural network
  76. Pokemon generated by neural network
  77. Pokemon generated by neural network
  78. Three bad recipes generated by neural network
  79. Cthulhu in the Kitchen

2016 15

  1. Pokemon generated by neural network
  2. Pokemon generated by neural network
  3. Cooking with Cthulhu
  4. The neural network doesn’t understand proper nouns.
  5. Disturbingly vague ingredients generated by neural network
  6. The neural network invents fancy new ingredients
  7. Superheroes designed by neural network
  8. (Untitled)
  9. The neural network has bad ingredient ideas
  10. The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat
  11. The neural network gives bad cooking advice
  12. The neural network doesn’t understand ingredients
  13. What is teaspoons?
  14. The neural network doesn’t understand pepper.
  15. The Silicon Gourmet: training a neural network to generate cooking recipes

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