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It is well established that AI can be weird. If you haven't dipped into the sublime world of bizarre and serendipitous NPC behaviour, this Wired article is an excellent place to start. I just re-watched a couple of them, and am still self-consciously suppressing the kind of raucous laughter that makes your fellow office workers start looking at you strangely. Or at least intensifies those looks, anyway.

Forget about NPCs, though, because right now I want to point you at the work of Janelle Shane, a scientist who likes telling neural networks to rejig concepts that humans have generally tackled much more capably. The results are often funnier than you or I will ever be.

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Matt Cox: Once the leader of Rock Paper Shotgun's Youth Contingent, Matt is an expert in multiplayer games, deckbuilders and battle royales. He occasionally pops back into the Treehouse to write some news for us from time to time, but he mostly spends his days teaching small children how to speak different languages in warmer climates.
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