Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy

Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy Why the neural net project creating wild visions has meaning for art, science, philosophy — and our view of reality Mordvintsev, Olah, Tyka I gripped the desk and sagged toward her as she held out the envelope, but I refused to accept it. “If you think we’re in trouble now, wait till you see what’s happening in the elevators.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas In the very early hours of May 18, 2015, Alexander Mordvintsev was wrenched from sleep. A decision that would reveal the power of artificial neural nets, our potential future overlords in an increasingly one-sided relationship with machine intelligence. Google is a leader in NNs, with assets that include pioneering researcher Geoffrey Hinton; Jeff Dean, a legendary Google computer scientist who leads a team that built an NN informally dubbed the Google Brain in Mountain View; and Google’s DeepMind acquisition in London pushing the boundary of machine intelligence.