A Guinea Pig Rescue Center Uses AI To Name Their Adorable Fluffballs

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  When Janelle Shane, an electrical engineer from UC San Diego- received an unusual Email from the Portland Guinea Pig Rescue center asking: “Have you ever trained a neural network to generate guinea pig names’?, she decided to take on the challenge

  
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  The rescue center gave Shane a list of classic guinea pig names – which turns out to be monikers like “Snickers” and “Rascal” – and the list of every guinea pig the center had ever rescued.

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  Using this data set of examples, Shane set to work creating a neural network based on Andrej Karpathy’s char-rnn opened-sourced code.

  

  The AI uses the letter combinations of the over 600 names she was given and then trains itself to generate more names

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  Here are some of the AI’s best names for the furry critters:

  

  Buzzberry and After Pie.

  
  

  
  

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  Fleury White and Stargoon
  

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  Hangerden

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  Popchop & Fuzzable
  

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  Bless & Bat

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