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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

posted by takyon on Saturday June 20 2015, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the psychedelic dept.

fleg writes:

The Guardian is reporting that Google is trying to understand how its neural net for image recognition works by feeding in random noise then telling the neural net to look for certain features then feeding the resulting image back in. Apart from anything else some of the images generated are astounding.

Link to original Google research article.

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:54PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:54PM (#198833) Journal

    So LSD induces a recursive pattern-matching algorithm in the human brain, right? Is that what this means, guys? Is that why it seems like The Meaning of Life was hidden under that molecule, because our ape-brains just really like finding patterns in the noise?

    Well shit, I was hoping it would turn out to be some sort Terence-McKenna-hoodoo-voodoo-bullshit. So it goes...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:36AM (#198854)

    I haven't taken LSD, but I have taken psilocybin, and these images look VERY familiar. I don't think it has anything to do with some kind of spiritual truth, it's just a good way of processing images. Much like other man made structures and algorithms might look a lot like things you'd find in nature.