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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. They've nailed it by DavidSpencer · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've had a few up-close experiences with heavy psychedelics. Those photos took me right back. Wonderful insights!

  2. Re:Now THAT's art! by captnjohnny1618 · · Score: 5, Informative

    A human can't do it? Alex Gray begs to differ.

    I guess we could argue that it's "similar" (i.e. not the same), but it's pretty darn close ;-).

    The Mandelbrot set is a very different animal from what these algorithms are doing. I agree that a human couldn't draw a Mandlebrot set, but in some sense this work is much less precise and analytic than something like a Mandlebrot set.