NYT Crossword Puzzle 12-5-21 Come Again? Complete (contains spoilers)

I pulled out 20A With 116-Down, artificial intelligence system that mimics the human brain: NEURAL NET because If you are unfamiliar with Janelle Shane‘s AI Weirdness blog, you are missing out.

She trains her neural net on data and then lets it go. She then changes some parameters and sees what it kicks out. She posts some amazing content like AI-Generated Food Trucks, which includes:

Pasta by the 5th Tree

How Porsche’s waswolf dog shifted to earth. A literal bed of pasta (turned inside out) is served at this pizza truck booth.

They You

Turbo treat and funnel cake awaited anyone accepting the sign. A collection of assorted cardboard tiles.

Bubble Doodle Babies

For the whole family, have your meal of bubble-dumplings in Cinnamon’s Tower.

Dumplings Rope

Anyone who has ever broken the chain should clear their room. Buy enough spare chains so that you need the bag of unbroken chains at least 45 times again.

AI Weirdness AI-Generated Food Trucks

Come Again? is the name of this puzzle.

24A … FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR …: NEVERENDINGSTORY.
32A … GRIZZLY GRIZZLY GRIZZLY …: BEARSREPEATING.
45A … PROPOSAL PROPOSAL PROPOSAL …: PERPETUALMOTION.
72A … COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL …: ADINIFINITUM. For sure my favorite of all the theme clues.
97A … AMBITION AMBITION AMBITION …: RECURRINGDREAMS.
106A … STAIRS STAIRS STAIRS …: NONSTOPFLIGHTS.
115A … CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION …: CONTINUITYOFCARE.

Annoyed note: Two days in a row KATANA is an answer.

Finished this one in 38:19.

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