{"id":168018,"date":"2019-10-15T20:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1807347\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:19:37","slug":"theres-still-time-to-make-these-ai-generated-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/15\/theres-still-time-to-make-these-ai-generated-halloween-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Still Time to Make These AI-Generated Halloween Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For many, Halloween is a time to summon the holiday spirits by hanging cobwebs and skeletons, dressing up in spooky ensembles, and asking strangers for candy.<\/span><\/p>\n

For research scientist Janelle Shane, it’s another opportunity to put artificial intelligence to good use.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In my opinion, one of the best applications of neural networks is for generating Halloween costumes,” she wrote in a new blog post<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the last two years, Shane has been crowdsourcing ideas to feed into increasingly capable AIs, coaching the machines to come up with winning costumes like Statue of Pizza<\/a> and Ruth Bader Hat Guy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Now, as of 2019, there are much more powerful text-generating neural nets around,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among them is GPT-2: Trained by OpenAI on a “huge” dataset, and capable of producing recognizable lists of mushrooms, snacks, crochet patterns, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s also good as costumes, according to Shane.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My previous Halloween costume generators would not have been smart enough to come up with things like ‘jackalope’ or ‘Carl Sagan,’” she said. “But GPT-2 has seen these words used online in similar contexts to things that are in the training data, and it makes the connection.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Struggling for ideas a mere two weeks before All Hallows’ Eve?<\/span><\/p>\n

Shane’s got you covered.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Take your pick (via Janelle Shane)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Why not dress up as an incognito llama, space cow, raised eyebrow, walking carpet, or gothy giraffe?<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, you’re looking for a <\/span>sexy<\/span><\/i> character?<\/span><\/p>\n

How about a sexy egg? Or sexy locust? No, no, I think your best bet is a sexy DNA or sexy Flying Dutchman.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The neural net was pretty good at designing identifiable characters, even if they are a bit on the weird side,” Shane explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surely everyone will understand your sentient stone costume, fairy root vegetable get up, evil cupcake duds, or poker-player-in-possession-of-an-onion outfit.<\/span><\/p>\n

(The Time Lord Power Ranger may be my favorite could-actually-be-a-costume costume of 2019.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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From sexy to surreal (via Janelle Shane)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“There are hints, though, that this is the work of an AI rather than \u2026 someone who understands what costumes are and how they work,” the blog said.<\/span><\/p>\n

These, for example, take moderately ordinary concepts and make then “unnecessarily difficult”: vampire in hot tub, hidden Jesus statue, wizard encased in icicle, telephone that accepts up to four numbers, Third Eye Blind photographed by Dorothy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let your imagination run wild.<\/span><\/p>\n

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