Embroidered tennis racquets by Danielle Clough
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Embroidered tennis racquets by Danielle Clough
These are so cool!!!
I suspect you have questions.
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This neural net would like to deliver these petitions
So the other day I heard from Change.org, a company that lets anyone make an online petition and gather signatures. In over a decade of existence, they’ve hosted about 5 million unique petitions.
Some of the petitions are VERY unique - like the ongoing petition to sell Montana to Canada, which gathered so many signatures that the Montana House of Representatives introduced a bill to release a statement opposing the sale. The bill failed to pass.
The question that Change.org - and I - became obsessed with is: if I trained a neural network on the full list of petitions, what kinds of demands would it generate?
The neural net I ended up using is 117M-GPT-2, by OpenAI, which is better at stringing together readable sentences than some of the other neural nets I’ve used. It also comes with a lot of prelearned knowledge about how words are used in sentences, and how they relate to one another, so it will even suggest things that aren’t in the training data sometimes. As training data to imitate, I gave it about 190k petition titles (heavily filtered for quality). I trained it for several minutes on Google’s free colaboratory GPUs (thanks to a colaboratory notebook put together by Twitter user @roadrunning01), and then played with the sampling parameters (mostly truncation) until it was producing very weird (but still readable) petition titles.
Just like real Change.org petitions, the AI-generated demands were clustered in a few general categories:
Bad ideas/Lost Causes: Dogs are not a thing!! Dog Owners are NOT Human beings!! Help Bring Climate Change to the Philippines! Taco, Chipotle, and Starbucks: Bring Back Lettuce Fries Filipinos: We want your help stopping the killing of dolphins in Brazil in 1970’s Mr.person: I want a fresh puppy in my home Simple Stats Administration: Make Another proboscis. Officials at Prince Alfred Hospital: Aurora to Tell The Company To Send A Baby to Mars Sign Petition for Houston’s New Fireworks to be Offensive
What? Make a mudchat Please not punish myself with a $20 fines. Unicorn: Stop breaking crab products Rooster Teeth : Have Rooster Teeth Fix Your Responses To Obama The people of Great Adventure: get lil bl00ty moose loyal to us The People of Kashmir : Ban of Airbrushed Bamboo Trees By Pune Barack Obama, Barack Obama, and Barack Obama: STOP PING MY HUSBERS! Saskatoon Police Service: No more scootty One Highway, Four Hens, Highway 1 Rhino Amish Culture Association: Cut the horns of the congon sturgeon & treat it better!
Seems reasonable: Harmonix: Increase the speed limit on Easton Road to 5mph. Everyone: Put the Bats on YouTube! Donald Trump: Change the name of the National Anthem to be called the “Fiery Gator” Taco Bell: Offer hot wings and non-perfumed water for all customers Do not attack the unions! Keep cowpies! Anyone: Get a cat to sing on air! The people of the world: Change the name of the planet to the Planet of the Giants Dr James Alexander: Make the Power of the Mongoose a Part of the School’s Curriculum
There must be a story behind this one: Theresa May MP: Stop The Pigeon Rally in Great Britain Karen’s mother: Please bring your own breadsticks for Karen. baseleine planetarium: Unnecessary insults are not welcome in our flat, end it! Anyone: Stop the use of the word ‘shoe’ in a derogatory way. City of Toronto, The City of Toronto, The City of Toronto: Remove the “Bam Bam” sign Basketball Club of St. Louis: Stop the Feral Horseshoes at the Basketball Club Tom Heneghan as OBE Change Council Localimian: Dammit you! Denny: Put one more black bee sweater on Em1nt du Poste Belfast City Council: Fire the cabbages at Clutch MarketI Kim Hsu: Tougher Penalties for Pedestrians and Elephants on City Street in Austin Texas
This would appear to lay to rest the question of what AI would demand if it suddenly attained sentience. If you are an AI yourself and want to sign on to these petitions, you can register your preference for hot wings and non-perfumed water, and/or put Karen’s mom on notice about the breadsticks.
As bonus content: I have here some entire petitions generated by 117M-GPT-2. The full text for “One Highway, Four Hens, Highway 1″ is a TRIP. Sign up for bonus content here!
Jadis raises Hell on Earth. Illustration by Pauline Baynes.
I’ve been on the Internet so long I didn’t expect this to actually be an illustration of The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought this was some Edwardian political cartoon like “Suffragettes are DESTROYING SOCIETY.” But no, it literally is Jadis.
Me aged four: OH NO SOMEONE STOP HER
Me aged thirty-something: honestly she looks like she’s having a great time, good for her
Summer Dream (by João Almeida)
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a set if hp bookmarks i’ll have for melbourne supanova next weekend! one (1) boy for each book
Pismo Beach, CA by Tim Mossholder
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Totally gonna marry this random person that was just met in the woods who’s not even the same species
It’s Bulbasaur blooming season
Lots of variety this year!
A late bloomer!
Water-lily Bulbasaur catching up on the latest gossip at the lake
Wow, looks like thing are getting serious between hibiscus and fuchsia!
cute and HARDCORE
why should I stay here why should I stay
The Legend of Vox Machina (Animated Teaser)
Yellena James’ “Immerse” at Stephanie Chefas Projects.
Opening tonight - Friday, March 1st, 2019 - at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon is artist Yellena James’ magnificent solo exhibition, “Immerse.”
With “Immerse,” James experiments with round panels layered with vibrant paint and clear resin, adding a discernible sense of space and separation to the work. In turn, the painted transmutations seem suspended from their respective terrains. Providing even greater depth are the presence of shadows beneath various forms, lending a palpable layer of believability. Nevertheless, a transcendent and otherworldly vibe persists.
The exhibition will be on view until March 22nd, 2019.
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