This week is all about AI Dungeon 2, a popular and extremely fun GPT-2 based RPG. It doubles as both Allison's Zesty Hat and Justin's Trashy Toy, as last week's darling boy Joshua Wilkinson plays it with an odd character from his new school in Boston, Athena Hardy.

AI Dungeon 2

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This week, Justin shares some of Janelle Shane's world famous AI Weirdness pies from the past few years. Then, we invite 9 of our closest randomly generated friends to a white elephant gift exchange, which brings a little more mystery than we bargained for.

AI Weirdness Pies 2019

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This week, Allison talks about another procedural generation challenge creators participated in throughout the month of November - NaNoGenMo, or National Novel Generation Month! Then, we see the return of Regression to the Meme, pitting us against neural nets guessing movie ratings.

NaNoGenMo

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It's our ProcJam 2019 episode! Justin highlights just three of his favorite entries to this year's ProcJam. Then, we use another entry that generates premises for sitcom episodes in conjunction with Talk to Transformer to create some new sitcom pitches.

ProcJam 2019 Entries

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This week, Allison shares a Buzzfeed quiz for guessing the real from the GPT-2 by Botnik's Jamie Brew. Then, the guessing games continue as Justin brings back an old classic, Real, Net, Nik?

Bot or Not? Quiz

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This week, Justin delivers some zesty tapas from the Creative AI Newsletter and Allison shares a new Twitter bot made by friend of the podcast, Joey Scully! Then, everyone cozies up around the fireplace to tell a story of mystery, music, and masks.

Creative AI Newsletter

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This week, Allison has some public service announcements for the computational creativity community. Then, the heat gets turned up in the first ever Great Botish Bakeoff. If I were you, I'd be wary of having The Dreamer as your sous chef.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

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This week, Justin talks about some of the most popular bots on Twitter and the article Botwiki creator Stefan Bohacek wrote about them. Then, Allison leaves an old friend in charge of running another installment of the Imitation Dating Game - Jack, the cordial cannibal.

Botwiki Article - The Botwiki is looking for help! Get in contact if you'd like to volunteer to help keep it updated.

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Halloween time is in full swing and we're getting even more in the spirit with Janelle Shane's new neural network Halloween costumes! Then, we play a spooky-themed game of 20 Questions with Write with Transformer, who is apparently a simple amateur filmmaker.

AiWeirdness Halloween Costumes 2019

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This week, Justin shares a new transformer-based text tool, CTRL. Then, we play two intrepid cryptid hunters who meet some of the coolest, friendliest cryptids in Louisiana on their journey to find the mysterious, chaotic Funjool.

CTRL

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