AI Weirdness

I was wondering which Halloween candy would make the best laser, and came across reports that Jolly Ranchers are fluorescent.

For years I've been jealous of astronomers and biologists with their fun space-themed and animal-themed clothes (some of which I've worn!).

Since 2019 I've used various language models (from the large to the very tiny) to generate drawing prompts for what has become an annual October tradition. (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and my personal favorite is 2022, when the GPTs were sma…

In the Steven Universe cartoon series, most of the characters are some kind of space alien gem or semi-precious rock.

Some lasers are made from lab-grown gems, like specially-formulated ruby, garnet, or sapphire.

I found out recently that lasers made a cameo in the 1981 film Clash of the Titans - as the mighty god rays of Zeus.

Who knew they use lasers to make jeans now?

Recently my family gave me a hologram-making kit that they found at an antique mall in Indiana.

As someone whose name pops up when you search for "AI writers", I get unsolicited AI-related emails.

Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!"

You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things.

I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes.

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.

After seeing generated text evolve from the days of tiny neural networks to today's ChatGPT-style large language models, I have to conclude: there's something special about the tiny guys.