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Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-literally-upside-down dept.

cjellibebi writes: Neural networks that were designed to recognize images also hold some interesting capabilities for generating them. If you run them backwards, they turn out to be capable of enhancing existing images to resemble the images they were meant to try and recognize. The results are pretty trippy. A Google Research blog post explains the research in great detail. There are pictures, and even a video. The Guardian has a digested article for the less tech-savvy.

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  1. I tried this myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ran slashdot backwards through the DICE marketing bullshit neural network and got www.soylentnews.org

  2. Wow! by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The slashdot UI produces psychedelic visuals even without any artificial or natural intelligence.
    Every time I come here, there are icons all over the place, in the middle of the text, the title bar shows random icons or text and I'm not even on beta.
    Not to mention the dupes or stupid articles and don't make me begin about the videos.