AI System Tries To Rename Classic Cookies And They Sound Bizarre

Have you ever wondered what name an AI system would give to classic cookies if you sent in 1,228 cookies recipes?  Would these names be better than their original ones? In her latest experiment, researcher Janelle Shane creates an AI system that gives new names to classic cookies. In her blog posted on December 7, the neural network that she used which was called textgenrnn, just tried to imitate any text that she gave it. The main problem here was that the neural network didn’t know the meaning of these words. It just picked up any letter combinations that it thought may work.

Her AI system looked at the given cookie recipes, then renamed them. The result included a list of cookies with bizarre-sounding names, which might be perfect a challenge on the British television series “The Great British Baking Show”.

On her blog, she added that to a neural network, these names are what cookies from human sound like.

These are some of the new names that the AI system gave to classic cookies: Quitterbread Bars, Merry Hunga Poppers, Apricot Dream Moles and Grandma’s Spritches, which honestly sound extremely weird.

Besides cookie names, Shane had also trained her Artificial Intelligence system to create new names for Dungeons and Dragons creatures as well as Valentine’s Day candy hearts.

2,205 creatures from Dungeons and Dragons were gathered to be renamed by the neural network. Some of the new names include Spectral Slug, Worfworm, Marraganralleraith, Jabberwont, and Burglestar. Whereas, the new names for Valentine’s Day candy hearts include some names that sounded quite plausible like Cute kiss or Love bun. Some sounded rather uncharming, like Bog love, I honker, and You are bear. And some sounded extremely weird like Love 2000 hogs yea, Stank love and You are boa.