Artificial Intelligence software produces nightmare images

[Chairman Goodchild]

Here's the link to Google explaining their 'neural net' Deep Dream AI software and how it recognizes and produces images.


And here are the images Deep Dream generates as it peers into a nightmare gateway into another dimension.

I'm not saying humanity should destroy all computers now while we still have time, only that perhaps we should look into it.

[strawman]

The eyes have it.

[Chairman Goodchild]

There was a painter in Edwardian England, Louis Wain, who painted cats. He also had schizophrenia. As the schizophrenia progressed, his cats went from cute to bizarre geometric shapes not even resembling cats.



There's something here that links these two together. Some intangible thing about being unable to recognize a true sense of objects as discrete things, that seems to cause Deep Dream to almost behave as tho it has schizophrenia, something that just seems to call out from these images, something that just seems to tease the edge of recognition.