Why Google’s nightmare AI is putting demon puppies everywhere

Washington Post ^ | Jul 8, 2015 | by Jeff Guo

[Lazamataz]

A few weeks ago, Google researchers announced that they had peered inside the mind of an artificial intelligence program.

What they discovered was a demonic hellscape. You’ve seen the pictures.

These are hallucinations produced by a cluster of simulated neurons trained to identify objects in a picture. The researchers wanted to better understand how the neural network operates, so they asked it to use its imagination. To daydream a little.

At first, they gave the computer abstract images to interpret — like a field of clouds. It was a Rorschach test. The artificial neurons saw what they wanted to see, which in this case were mutant animals dredged from the depths of damnation.

[Lazamataz]

Not know to too many people, the actual name was The Beat Les.

There was a fellow they hated, name of Lester.

Thus: The Beat Les.

[Mycroft Holmes]

‘Dreaming Meat’ is another good band name.

[Slings and Arrows]

Very good band name!

[Slings and Arrows]

That sounds like John.

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