Among the new cookie names, shared by Shane of Dec. 7, were Canical Bear-Widded Nutts, Apricot Dream Moles, and Hersel Pump Spritters. According to Shane, they were created by a network called textgenrnn that tries to imitate the text it is given. This means that the AI is picking letter combinations that it thinks would likely make sense based on all the recipes it has seen, but it doesn’t know what any of the words in those recipes actually mean.
I trained a neural network on 1,228 types of cookies and apparently these are what cookies sound like to it.https://t.co/YS8vbgWiyz pic.twitter.com/ommtYtAMAs — Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) December 7, 2018