With images like these, who needs drugs?Google's artificial neural network, Deep Dream, is capable of producing some amazingly trippy images.
A typical neural network looks for features of an image that match a particular concept, like a banana. But the Google program turns that on its head, by tweaking a random image to produce features that eventually resemble a banana.
Recently, YouTube user Roelof Pieters had the bright idea of running the program on scenes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 cult classic which is basically Johnny Depp on one long acid trip.
The results, needless to say, were disturbing. Creepy animal heads with eyes like gaping orbs materialize in a darkened room.
