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So if you’ve ever picked out paint, you know that every infinitesimally different shade of blue, beige, and gray has its own descriptive, attractive name. Tuscan sunrise, blushing pear, Tradewind, etc… There are in fact people who invent these names for a living. But given that the human eye can see millions of distinct colors, sooner or later we’re going to run out of good names. Can AI help?

For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue color values) Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?

One way I have of checking on the neural network’s progress during training is to ask it to produce some output using the lowest-creativity setting. Then the neural network plays it safe, and we can get an idea of what it has learned for sure.

By the first checkpoint, the neural network has learned to produce valid RGB values - these are colors, all right, and you could technically paint your walls with them. It’s a little farther behind the curve on the names, although it does seem to be attempting a combination of the colors brown, blue, and gray.

By the second checkpoint, the neural network can properly spell green and gray. It doesn’t seem to actually know what color they are, however.

Let’s check in with what the more-creative setting is producing.

…oh, okay.

Later in the training process, the neural network is about as well-trained as it’s going to be (perhaps with different parameters, it could have done a bit better - a lot of neural network training involves choosing the right training parameters). By this point, it’s able to figure out some of the basic colors, like white, red, and grey:

Although not reliably.

In fact, looking at the neural network’s output as a whole, it is evident that:

The neural network really likes brown, beige, and grey.

The neural network has really really bad ideas for paint names.

Tag yourself, I’m *Insert Cold Pun Here* and The Most Miserable Orphan.

BONUS:

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS

Aires: The girlfriend who loves to cheat at boardgames and out run their partner, is always attempting to look daring and brave, likes to climb all over their partner and leave little hickies and love bites, will definitely chew out someone for their partner, likes to show their best features in front of their partner at all times

Taurus: The girlfriend that loves to kiss looong goodbyes, is always poking or nudging at their partner at an attempt to get their attention, always knows the smoothest responses to things, neck kisses, likes to sleep holding/being held, dirty jokes, subtle (not so subtle) flirt

Gemini: The girlfriend that is low-key jealous af, likes to wakeup their partner to kisses, pda, holds their partner’s whole arm when walking together, likes to have their hair played with, likes to run their fingers over their partner’s chest/abdomin,hardcore dirty talk, is honestly so happy to be tolerated

Cancer: The girlfriend who protects their precious baby at all costs, loves to listen to the partner’s passions and ambitions, is always looking for things their partner would like/things that remind them, touchy-touchy-touchy all the time, if an awkward tension or disagreement occurs their first instinct is to hug their partner, would actually rip someone to shreds for their partner, likes to feel praised and adored

Virgo: The girlfriend who is low-key concerned for their partner at all times, is always worried when their partner does anything dangerous(physically or otherwise), really soft, likes to pet/rub their partner, gives the cutest little nick names, a bit of a tease, always trying to figure their partner out

Libra: The girlfriend who gives back scratches, lots of giggling, likes to bake for their partner, will kick their partner’s butt in Mario Kart, is attracted to tall people, heavy breathing, likes to touch their partner’s head/hair, likes to be comforted, shower kisses, strange dance moves, secret flirts

Scorpio: The girlfriend who loves to see their partner doing things deemed to be kind traits like playing with kids or dogs(they find sweetness a huge turn on), part of them wants a dominant partner but are drawn to more submissive, gives great massages, the expert on how to turn someone on, secretly really likes the more popular person for a partner, moaners

Leo: The girlfriend who wants all of their friends to love their partner, seeks approval and admiration often, needs someone who is equal to them in status and reputation, like feeling submissive as they are normally alphas, buys expensive and over-the-top gifts, so much PDA, smiling into kisses, up for anything

Sagittarius: The girlfriend who loves to tease and make fun of their partner, likes going on fun and adventurous dates, has really strange(yet cute) nick names for their partner, will definitely steal their partner’s clothes(will not return them), super fun and hot, often ends good relationships on the search for something better, great hair, pillow fights

Capricorn: The girlfriend who is meme AF, wants to shower their partner in affection but doesn’t quite know how, loves a funny guy, wants someone who will draw out their silly side, fantastic lips, shows their affection in cute little moments of excitement with a peck or a random ‘I LOVE YOU’, supper funny, actually really chill, secretly romantic

Aquarius: The girlfriend who loves to just look at how attractive their partner is, likes to be more submissive, always putting their feet on their partner??, hates coming up with date plans, doesn’t dress up often but when they do they look like stars, loves cheek/nose kisses, sleepy makeup sessions, neck stroking

tag yourself mario edition