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April 8, 2017 8:55 AM

This artwork represents what it would be like for an AI to watch Bob Ross on LSD (once someone invents digital drugs). It shows some of the unreasonable effectiveness and strange inner workings of deep learning systems. The unique characteristics of the human voice are learned and generated as well as hallucinations of a system trying to find images which are not there. (DeepDream previously)
posted by Johnny Wallflower (20 comments total)

Thanks zalgo!
posted by runcifex at 8:58 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Fun fact, this is how Windows computers see the world, all the time! That's why they sometimes just shut down (to prevent "damage").
posted by Wolfdog at 9:00 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

my favorite part is where he visits the animals. all the animals. the entire spectrum of animals in a glittering coalescing protean mass.
posted by mittens at 9:01 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

I've watched this more than once since it started showing up here and there. It reminds me of dreams I had when I was very, very young. Really, the first dreams I can remember having. Not in a disturbing way, but a way that makes me wonder if this kind of ever-shifting perception is normal in young brains that aren't quite completely wired up yet.
posted by lagomorphius at 9:02 AM on April 8, 2017

Alternately, you might be an AI dumped into a flesh shell. What happens if you look in the mirror and shout

SEE DEE SPACE SLASH ENTER
ARR EMM SPACE DASH ARR EFF SPACE STAR ENTER

At yourself?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:10 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

The demonic dog-beast snouts lurking in the darkness to the right of the canvas are also a nice touch. And by “nice”, I mean deeply disturbing.
posted by acb at 9:16 AM on April 8, 2017

lagomorphius: my impression is that this kind of thing is normal for the young brain that is extensively wired and interconnected and not yet disconnected. What the child experience, the hallucinatory experience, and these algorithms have in common is the connectedness and sensitivity - in a younger or tripping mind there are promiscuous connections between processes in the brain that are differentiated and disconnected for an adult. The suppression of false positives has been replaced by a hyper-recognition that emphasizes everything until it looks like patterns.
posted by idiopath at 9:18 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

I really liked/feared the bit where he was petting the bat/lizard/spider.
posted by NMcCoy at 9:18 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]

So let me get this straight, this isn't what the rest of you normally see when you watch Bob Ross?
posted by Strange Interlude at 9:23 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

What happens if you look in the mirror and shout
SEE DEE SPACE SLASH ENTER
ARR EMM SPACE DASH ARR EFF SPACE STAR ENTER
At yourself?

I see a dog. Wait, a bird.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:24 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Computers on LSD sure like dogs and birds, huh?
posted by leotrotsky at 9:25 AM on April 8, 2017

I heard you like dogs so I put a bat in your lizardbirdspider so you can chickencentipede while you dogartichoke.
posted by Wolfdog at 9:28 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]

As fantastic as it is, the jumping around of images makes it really disorienting. Has anyone seen DeepDream-like video made where the images have more stability? This looks like each still frame is processed independently, so frame 25 of Bob's hand may be a puppy and frame 26 is a cockatoo. I mean every frame isn't always changing, frame 26 may be a cockatoo as well, but the instability of the classifier with such a low signal is very visible.

I want to see something with more permanence, so his hand remains a cockatoo the whole time it is in frame.
posted by Nelson at 9:30 AM on April 8, 2017

> What happens if you look in the mirror and shout
SEE DEE SPACE SLASH ENTER
ARR EMM SPACE DASH ARR EFF SPACE STAR ENTER
At yourself?

nothing. but I think it's just cause I run on vms
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 9:31 AM on April 8, 2017

"Hellish little treespiderpedes!"
posted by leotrotsky at 9:32 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

I find it concerning that the singularity is going to involve SO MANY EYEBALLS.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:41 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

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posted by theodolite at 9:44 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]

I find it concerning that the singularity is going to involve SO MANY EYEBALLS.

Keep one closed. I swear this is a double but I'm not using up my good eye.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 9:50 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Computers on LSD sure like dogs and birds, huh?

The pre-rolled neural nets that get used for a lot of stuff like this are based on Google DeepDream, which was originally trained to recognize dog breeds as its first test case. This article has a bit more about it.

That's why everything appears to be made of dogs.
posted by codacorolla at 9:51 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Double? (I like the title of this one better though!)
posted by Feyala at 9:51 AM on April 8, 2017