I am so proud of this

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...

Psst: Notice where this wind/weather data is coming from. It's coming from NCAR. One tiny blip of the kajillion things NCAR does to improve/advance weather forecasting. #COwx

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

FACT

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

We have this up on our TV like a Yule Log

This was a really good episode! I never knew the Voynich manuscript was so old and interesting, and that there’s stuff linguists HAVE figured out about it

Don’t use text generators for search! Scroll right on past the “AI overview”! Unless you want an endless faucet of lies. Imaginary cats and lies

I so appreciate Lydia organizing this and making it easy for the rest of us to do a good thing. We’re more than halfway there now.

An interesting article illustrating why we go to the effort to make extra narrowband lasers …AND a cautionary tale about using LLMs to write alt text!

On sale in Germany, too (for €3.99).

Sorry I am still stuck on this infographic (unfographic) If this was what it is like to be autistic in an allistic world I would also accept it. This is a pretty decent representation of auditory processing disorder. (Me in a meeting) But again, not what they were going for.

This book is so funny and readable. I used it as the main text in my AI literacy class, and even though it predates the LLM horror-madness, it provided all the foundation we needed to really dig in. Great deal!

Also available for CAD$2.99 at Canadian sites like Kobo!

The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places! www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo... If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as: - peeled rosemary - Chaosrug - King of the Poop Bug - Silly Walks

Happy World Linguistics Day from Boulder, Colorado!

I approve of this (cromberry yaas is a pie generated by a very tiny old-school neural network) www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-make-...

Also this reminds me that almost nothing will make me laugh as hard as @janelleshane.com 's (ethically sourced) recipes, but these things should stay in captivity, and not be released into the wild. www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-a...

From the days of chocolate horseradish brownies and chocolate chicken chicken cake to now, there has never been a good time to try an AI generated recipe.

This shit is delightful

A noteworthy addition to the Wikipedia page on black neon tetras en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_n...

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I appreciate this laser-centric birthstone roundup from @scishow.bsky.social They mentioned a lot of lasers but missed one of my favorites, titanium sapphire (they got a lot of other cool sapphire applications though) youtu.be/RvktoG4EGn8

Lovely display of #aurora in north #boulder tonight!

Every so often I think about the two grads students in my old lab who had to sort through hundreds of thousands of seafloor images to find ecologically interesting regions. One built this super sophisticated machine learning algorithm that was, honestly, very very impressive.

Finished Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com today and I will be thinking about it for a while and probably rereading it soon. Just low key in tears in the hotel breakfast room but it’s not because I’m sad, it’s because dogs are so good

There are freshly signed copies of You Look Like a Thing And I Love You at the Denver Airport Terminal B Tattered Cover!

"If Grokipedia is getting things about me wrong, what else is it getting wrong in other articles, where I do not have the same level of domain knowledge?" - @scalzi.com

I wrote a "haunted house" story featuring crappy AI and remote human workers who are doing their best! It's called "The Skeleton Crew", and you can listen to it here slate.com/podcasts/fut...

BOO! 👻🎃👻 No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits. #Ecosde2Cañones

Relatedly, a question for people with agricultural knowledge: if a paper says "samples were obtained from AG-Link International and were obtained from a Holstein bull (“Fillmore”)." does that mean the bull's name was Fillmore?

I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween costumes and do I have some costume suggestions for you! www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-neural-...

my name is Oz and wen the stone is broke to bits and all alone i lie in sand it stretches bare you read my words you pls despair

Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include: Cicada wing Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken) Potato Chicken meat Peacock feather Vitamin B2 Olive oil Spinach Coral Sunflower oil Butter Bone Human organs Bull semen

Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include: Cicada wing Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken) Potato Chicken meat Peacock feather Vitamin B2 Olive oil Spinach Coral Sunflower oil Butter Bone Human organs Bull semen

Ghosts can be where you least expect them, especially wherever you last saw your earbuds. 👻✨

Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks

A tool you can trust!

It certainly is game-shaped! Highlights include: - Dee, my favorite Delie - Train to Uptoown - Sideways train to Uptoown - Helpful mini-map in corner - Normal Use of Ladder I think this is my favorite frame

for days 19-22 I used this quoted list for prompts 😂 I consider it #Botober the Halloween edition. I picked Moth fairy, Hungry Boats, Mid wonka, and The Skypug. I *will* draw more >:-) #botober2025 #inktober #inktober2025 #art bsky.app/profile/jane...

Okay, from what I can tell a "time crystal" is like a repeating gif made of matter (but, like, quantum). And what they've done in this paper is like finding a way to externally affect what's in the gif. Note the sharpie mark on the super high tech equipment. Engineers!

Just found a tiny bell pepper that had slipped down into the lining of my coat. That could have been an unpleasant surprise in a few weeks.

I recently finished Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social and am recommending it to everyone I see. Post-apocalyptic in a sense but not desperate because so many of the characters care about each other and their community and want to build them up. I have a feeling I’ll be rereading this soon.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

I was just telling someone today about those dish soap bottle aprons and I believe this is proof that I wasn’t making them up. If you were to clothe a bell pepper it’s just what you would use

So you need a fresh costume idea. Don't ask chatgpt! no what you need is one of these costumes tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes best quality costumes guaranteed www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-co...