Google DeepDream is the neural network technology Google developed to see what a deep neural network is seeing when it is looking in a given image. Now, the algorithm has become a new form of psychedelic and abstract art.
Often, the “dreams” are pretty disturbing. Like this pretty well known “Dog Spaghetti” image:
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Scary, but then… that is the stuff dreams are made of, right?
And here’s one of mine – two images together, tulips and a frog, and how the AI, after crunching away at them for a while, makes sense of them:
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Awesome, no?
You can read more about DeepDream here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream.