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Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Re: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Post by teraflop »

userbinator wrote: post #13
moyix wrote: post #2

This appears to be the source of the mysterious image that showed up on Reddit's /r/machinelearning the other day too: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3a1ebc/ima...

It reminds me of that parrot image that was said to crash human brains, only even more intense. I certainly experienced some effect, as while looking at it and trying to figure out what exactly it was, I felt my head heating up --- probably increased blood flow.

In case anyone hasn't read the story this is referring to: "BLIT" by David Langford. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

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Post by teraflop »

raldi wrote: post #10
meemoo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm reminded of Alex Grey's visionary art https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094... .

Link's broken.

Fixed: https://caudallure.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1217891347094...

Re: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Post by ohashi »

cing wrote: post #9
meemoo wrote: post #5

Tweak image urls for bigger images: Ibis: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Uj3hPFupok/VYIT6s_c9OI/AAAAAAAAAl... Seurat: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PK_bEYY91cw/VYIVBYw63uI/AAAAAAAAAl... Clouds: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FPDgxlc-WPU/VYIV1bK50HI/AAAAAAAAAl... Buildings: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XZ0i0zXOhQk/VYIXdyIL9kI/AAAAAAAAAm... I'd love to experiment with this and video. I predict a nerdy music video soon, and a pop video…

As linked in the last figure caption, there's a Google Photos gallery with high-resolution downloadable versions: https://goo.gl/photos/fFcivHZ2CDhqCkZdA

Some of them are truly beautiful

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Post by gojomo »

Facial-recognition neural nets can also generate creepy spectral faces. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZIN7Jh3Sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBPFG6qGLM

(Or if you want to put them full-screen on infinite loop in a darkened room: http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=XNZIN7Jh3Sg&p=n http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=ogBPFG6qGLM&p=n )

The code for the 1st is available in a Gist linked from its comments; the creator of the 2nd has a few other videos animating grid 'fantasies' of digit-recognition neural-nets.

Re: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Post by anigbrowl »

These images are remarkably similar to chemically-enhanced mammalian neural processing in both form and content. I feel comfortable saying that this is the Real Deal and Google has made a scientifically and historically significant discovery here. I'm also getting an intense burst of nostalgia.

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Post by davedx »

Worth reading the comments too.

One from Vincent Vanhoucke: "This is the most fun we've had in the office in a while. We've even made some of those 'Inceptionistic' art pieces into giant posters. Beyond the eye candy, there is actually something deeply interesting in this line of work: neural networks have a bad reputation for being strange black boxes that that are opaque to inspection. I have never understood those charges: any other model (GMM, SVM, Random Forests) of any sufficient complexity for a real task is completely opaque for very fundamental reasons: their non-linear structure makes it hard to project back the function they represent into their input space and make sense of it. Not so with backprop, as this blog post shows eloquently: you can query the model and ask what it believes it is seeing or 'wants' to see simply by following gradients. This 'guided hallucination' technique is very powerful and the gorgeous visualizations it generates are very evocative of what's really going on in the network."

Re: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Post by shard »

teraflop wrote: post #31
userbinator wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It reminds me of that parrot image that was said to crash human brains, only even more intense. I certainly experienced some effect, as while looking at it and trying to figure out what exactly it was, I felt my head heating up --- probably increased blood flow.

In case anyone hasn't read the story this is referring to: "BLIT" by David Langford. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

Ah, so it's Monty Python's funniest joke in the world in visual form: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U

Re: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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Post by Houshalter »

teraflop wrote: post #31
userbinator wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It reminds me of that parrot image that was said to crash human brains, only even more intense. I certainly experienced some effect, as while looking at it and trying to figure out what exactly it was, I felt my head heating up --- probably increased blood flow.

In case anyone hasn't read the story this is referring to: "BLIT" by David Langford. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

There's also a few sequels:

http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...

And What Happened at Cambridge IV, which I can't find online.

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