This Spooky, Bizarre Haunted House Was Generated by an AI

AI is slowly getting more creative, and as it does it's raising questions about the nature of creativity itself, who owns works of art made by computers, and whether conscious machines will make art humans can understand. In the spooky spirit of Halloween, one engineer used an AI to produce a very specific, seasonal kind of "art": a haunted house. It's not a brick-and-mortar house you can walk through, unfortunately; like so many things these days, it's virtual, and was created by research scientist and writer Janelle Shane. Shane runs a machine learning humor blog called AI Weirdness where she writes about the "sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that machine learning algorithms get things wrong." For the virtual haunted house, Shane used CLIP, a neural network built by OpenAI, and VQGAN, a neural network architecture that combines convolutional neural networks (which are typically used for images) with transformers (which are typically used for language).