Horspest and Shivercell: a neural net invents names for fruit varieties

Mark Frauenfelder 10:40 am Wed Apr 5, 2017

Research scientist Janelle Shane writes: "I’ve been training a neural network (based on this open-source neural network framework from Andrej Karpathy) on datasets from recipes, to lists of Pokemon, to superhero names. I decided to see if it could invent names for new fruit varieties – I fed it a list of apple, peach, pear, plum, and cherry varieties, and asked it to generate more."

Sunbrown

Stanker

Pork Gala

Horspest

Shivercell

Hencough

Moregall

Brown Soften

Ruby Wally

Ruck

Nagtort

Blee Red

Redcells

Zuby Glong

Zeelcher

Hacker Gala

Soften Fuji

Klunk 134

Horking

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