This AI thinks you should dress up as “Grankenstein,” “Sexy the Spock,” or “The Twin Spider Mermaid” this Halloween

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by Sindy Cator on October 27, 2017 at 9:56 am

Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence

Halloween is almost upon us, and if you’re looking for costume inspiration, you might want to check out these AI-generated getups. Janelle Shane, a research scientist based in Colorado, trained a neural network to procedurally generate costume ideas, based on a dataset of 4,500 existing costumes, and ended up coming up with some outrageously funny ideas. These ranged from the utterly-fucking incomprehensible, to the actually rather reasonable. On the more left-field side of things, there were “Aldonald the Goddess of the Chicken,” “The Game of Nightmare Lightbare” (which actually sounds pretty fun), and the delicious “Statue of pizza.” However, my…