One of my first
[https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-17-05-17/]
experiments
[https://www.aiweirdness.com/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-17-05-23/]
with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors.
I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and
with no prior training on English or
I mean, yes, some of the names don’t quite match the color, but some of them aren’t bad. For the Love of God and Canadian Mind are actually pretty good color names. They beat most of the established color names with a baseball bat. Those are mostly super generic.
Christ I found “at ease soldier” and “socialite” just clicking through. It’s worse that a human thinks those are color names lmao. They do get points for “utaupia” tho.
I mean, yes, some of the names don’t quite match the color, but some of them aren’t bad. For the Love of God and Canadian Mind are actually pretty good color names. They beat most of the established color names with a baseball bat. Those are mostly super generic.
https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family#/active/color-wall/section/sherwin-williams-colors/color/
I mean just look at this shit.
Christ I found “at ease soldier” and “socialite” just clicking through. It’s worse that a human thinks those are color names lmao. They do get points for “utaupia” tho.
“Turdly” and “Stanky Bean” are definitely superior colors to anything offered by Sherwin Williams.