The Wild Dreams of AI

Neural networks can literally dream, and what they see is absolutely wild.

Scientists discovered that when you reverse engineer these AI systems, they generate surreal

psychedelic images. This process, called Deep Dream, reveals how machines perceive our world.

They see dog faces in clouds, eyes in buildings, and patterns where none exist.

This is because they're trained to recognize features everywhere. The craziest part is when researchers

let networks dream freely, they create entirely new creatures that blend multiple animals

together. One network kept inserting pagodas into every landscape. Another became obsessed

with dumbbells. These hallucinations happen because neural networks amplify patterns they've learned,