Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 7 of 171
Inceptionism: neural networks dreaming psychedelic images
But why does the human brain react to LSD the way it does? And, if a machine were to achieve human-like consciousness, would it also react to “digital” LSD and enter an altered state of machine consciousness? Recently, Google’s artificial neural networks for image recognition have been creating fantastic psychedelic distortions of images all across the web. The networks’ parameters are tuned to search for certain features – and this tuning is fed back into the network as it analyzes an image. In other words, according to Google, neural networks that are trained to discriminate between different kinds of images have a lot of the information needed to generate images too. Google calls this “inceptionism.”