{"id":16819,"date":"2018-01-23T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2018-01-28T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:47:44","slug":"neural-net-comes-bird-species-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/23\/neural-net-comes-bird-species-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Neural net comes up with bird-species names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janelle Shane, who has trained neural nets to generate entertainingly semi-plausible names for all sorts of things (Pok\u00e9mon, <cite>Star Wars<\/cite> characters, etc), posted a new list about a month ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweirdness.com\/post\/168537453207\/when-ai-gets-into-birding\">bird names<\/a>. But this time, most of the names weren\u2019t much weirder than real names of bird species.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I enjoyed them. A few I particularly liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slaty White-throated Fairy-bellied Ground-Tyrant<\/li>\n<li>Ecuadorian Strange-tailed Cuckoo<\/li>\n<li>Unicolored Painted Blue-cowled White-browed Cave-Magpie<\/li>\n<li>Perplexaquail-Dove<\/li>\n<li>African White-capped Hocky Owl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janelle Shane, who has trained neural nets to generate entertainingly semi-plausible names for all sorts of things (Pok\u00e9mon, Star Wars characters, etc), posted a new list about a month ago: bird names. But this time, most of the names weren\u2019t much weirder than real names of bird species. Still, I enjoyed them. A few I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16907,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions\/16907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}