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AI explains human quirks

Humans are weird. The question is, do AI training datasets capture the full scope of our weirdness?

I decided to see if GPT-3 could successfully predict other human quirks when prompted with a short list of them. Here's what I gave GPT-3 DaVinci to complete:

Human things that

Bonus: Ada explains human quirks

AI recreates classic cereals

DALL-E 2 is very good at generating images to match text descriptions but I felt like using DALL-E 2 to mess up some brands. Here's breakfast cereals!

A green cereal box with some yellow four-leaf clovers on it. In the cereal bowl pictured is a small rainbow and a bunch of weirdly coiled colored pieces, like odd-colored tortellini. Text reads "Chamily Luikes"
"A box of lucky charms cereal on a grocery store shelf"
A wide cereal box with shiny cereal hoops covered in what appears to be colored white chocolate or yogurt. Cereal box reads "Loooos" and, in smaller font, "scipio aoloeedes"
"A box of Froot Loops on a

Bonus: More attempts at cereal

How to disappear a platypus

I was testing DALL-E 2 to see if it would be subject to some common incorrect assumptions about the sizes of things. For example if you asked people what size a kiwi bird is, they tend to assume it's a smallish bird, maybe around the size of a