An AI Just Created and Named New Paint Colors, and They're Hilarious

Buying paint is always an enlightening affair. The names that companies come up with for their pigments are usually worth a chuckle or two, at least. Browsing through the color swatches, you're likely to stumble upon some curious choices, like a soft lilac color called Potentially Purple, a light blue known as Salty Tear, or maybe just a nondescript Gray Area. Even so, humans may no longer have a monopoly on the esoteric color-naming game. Janelle Shae, famous for using neural networks to come up with Death Metal band names like "Verk" or "Chaorug," or cake and cookie recipes featuring novel ingredients like horseradish and chicken, has programmed software to create new paint colors and give them names.