The sleep of computer reason produces surrealism

http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html

An artificial neural network was trained, adjusting its parameters. Then it was run in “reverse” mode, to show what does it understand by, for example, the word “dumbbell”:

Besides that, a picture was fed to the network, and the network was asked to enhance whatever it detected:

More pictures are here (they are quite psychedelic):

https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/google-artificial-neural-networks-created-artworks-309782

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/google-neural-network-produces-psychedelic-imagery

http://connery.dk/googles-billedgenkendelse-har-laert-sig-selv-inception.126012.html

http://haritonoff.livejournal.com/303035.html