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The fractal nature of many of the "hallucinated" images is kind of fascinating. The parallels to psychedelic drug-induced hallucinations are striking.
by simonster 11y ago
The fractal nature of many of the "hallucinated" images is kind of fascinating. The parallels to psychedelic drug-induced hallucinations are striking.
- dzhiurgis 11y agoI remember reading that drugs block certain parts of the optical nerve, which itself is a bit like fractal. Also, personally, these pictures looked 'trippy' due to color palette that reminds hippy raves, rather than fractals.
- sixQuarks 11y agoIf we want to progress AI, I seriously recommend these researchers try acid or magic mushrooms.
- meemoo 11y agoI'm reminded of Alex Grey's visionary art https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094.. https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094....
- raldi 11y agoLink's broken.
- teraflop 11y agoFixed: https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094.jpg https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094...
- plq 11y agoOT, but this is originally a "3D" image. It can be found in the cover art of "10000 Days", an album from American metal band Tool. The original box comes with two magnifying lenses like this: http://s21.photobucket.com/user/Stonergrunge/media/Mis%20cosas/Colecciones%20varias/TOOL-10000_Days-04.jpg.html http://s21.photobucket.com/user/Stonergrunge/media/Mis%20cos... This (and others in the cover) look stunning through these lenses.
- nitrogen 11y agoYou can see the 3D effect of this subset of the image here: https://imgur.com/04yBHN4 https://imgur.com/04yBHN4
- gojomo 11y agoSome of these neural nets need to drink some orange juice and lie down for a few hours.
- anigbrowl 11y agoYes, this is basically artificial pareidolia. The interesting thing is that this technique would work on any kind of similarly structured neural net.
- s_baby 11y ago>If we choose higher-level layers, which identify more sophisticated features in images, complex features or even whole objects tend to emerge. Again, we just start with an existing image and give it to our neural net. We ask the network: “Whatever you see there, I want more of it!” This creates a feedback loop: if a cloud looks a little bit like a bird, the network will make it look more like a bird. This in turn will make the network recognize the bird even more strongly on the next pass and so forth, until a highly detailed bird appears, seemingly out of nowhere. I would say that's a pretty good description of how many psychedelic hallucinations unfold. They start off as noise in your vision which turn into loose forms which turn into geometric patterns which turn into etc...