This is a visualization of an image recognition AI called AlexNet, which was designed by Alex Krzhevsky, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ilya Sutskever of Google’s SuperVision Group. AlexNet competed in a competition for image recognition AI called the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in 2012. This visualization is built off of the Deep Dream visualization algorithm also designed by Google.
This set of images are the AI's best attempt to create an image that would most highly activate the neural network in a certain class. A certain "class" is just a fancy way to say a specific thing an AI has been trained to recognize. So when you say that a class is highly activated you're saying that the neural network is highly certain that the image it is accessing is in one of the categories of images it has been trained to recognize.
This creates an odd surreal set of images that is somewhere between beautiful and nightmarish. Look though the images and see if you can tell what they are! Answers are at the bottom of the post 😘
Created by Blake T. Ellender.
Here are zee answers...
1: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
2: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
3: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
4: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
5: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
6: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
7: 'stingray',
8: 'cock',
9: 'hen',
10: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus'
