Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has become a
honeypot for vandals, MAGA-hat cretins, and all sorts of shenanigans, so
the West Hollywood City Council unanimously voted to remove it permanently.
Peter, crying: It’s the Curiosity Rover’s birthday and he has to sing happy birthday all by himself on Mars and thats sad
Tony, already building a rocket: Say no more
Peter and Tony: *arrive and hop out of there rocket, only to see shuri in a super high tech space suit, holding cupcakes, and standing next to T’challa in his black panther suit because of course shuri made it so it could withstand a vaccum*
T’challa: she made me come here. It’s not too late for you if you run.
Tony, who loves all robots so fucking much: Ummmm why would we leave
Peter, holding up a gift: yeah, we brought presents!!!!
I’m not sure what the BBC intended people to use these sound effects for, but neural network enthusiasts immediately recognize a grand opportunity to make computers say silly things. Dave Lawrence downloaded the list of sound effect names and trained a neural network to invent new names. Read the results here, here, and here. Some of my favorites that Dave generated:
Approach of piglets Footsteps on ice, ponderous, parakeets Fairgrounds: Ghost train ride with swords Man punting metal hand Waterfall into cattle bread
Unfortunately, we don’t know what these sound like, since it just generated the names of the effects. Now, it’s possible to train a neural net to generate entire new sounds, but I did something considerably simpler: I trained a text-only neural net to make up a new name, and then pick one of the 16,000 existing sounds to go with it. (link to dataset)
How well did it work? Well, the neural net did learn to choose valid existing sounds. I had to retrain it with a smaller, more interesting subset of the sound effects, because everything ended up being horses and heavy machinery. What you see below is a mix of results from both training runs. Click on the name of any of these, and it’ll play the sound the neural net thought should go with it. (Click on the number to find out the original name of the sound)
NOTE: sound will play as soon as you click the link.
I also trained the neural net with the sound files and the names reversed – thus, I can finally ask it to pick a sound file to go with anything I want. Behold, long-standing mysteries solved by advanced artificial intelligence!
the worst fact in the world is that sloths don’t particularly have any body language to express fear so you could make a sloth really scared and never even know
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