These horse names chosen by artificial intelligence beat the ones in the Kentucky Derby

When the folks at the Jockey Club released their list of over 42,000 registered racehorses in an effort to assist owners in "identifying an appropriate name for their Thoroughbreds," they probably had no idea that the information would be fed to a neural network that would try to put them out of a job. In the latest post for AIWeirdness, artificial intelligence savant Janelle Shane fed the Jockey Club's dataset to two of her neural networks and tasked them with devising names for racehorses. Turns out the neural networks are pretty good at the job, coming up with names like Long Range Toddy, Gunmetal Gray, Maximus Mischief, Bankit, Network Effect, and--just kidding! Those are all names of actual racehorses running in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. It just shows where the bar is set when it comes to the odd process of naming thoroughbreds.