Inside an alien brain - deep psychedelic and surreal imagery - video art

Very psychedelic and trippy journey into an alien’s brain with dogs on it’s mind. Deeply hallucinogenic psychedelia and electronica. video art imagery Produced using the Deepdream software. The DeepDream software originates in a deep convolutional network codenamed “Inception“ after the film of the same name, was developed for the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2014 and released in July 2015. The software is designed to detect faces and other patterns in images, with the aim of automatically classifying images. However, once trained, the network can also be run in reverse, being asked to adjust the original image slightly so that a given output neuron (e.g. the one for faces or certain animals) yields a higher confidence score. This can be used for visualizations to understand the emergent structure of the neural network better, and is the basis for the DeepDream concept. However, after enough reiterations, even imagery initially devoid of the sought features will be adjusted enough that a form of pareidolia results, by which psychedelic and surreal images are generated algorithmically. The oft-cited resemblance of the imagery to LSD- and psilocybin-induced hallucinations is suggestive of a functional resemblance between artificial neural networks and particular layers of the visual cortex, a matter which merits further study. Visuals by Johan Nordberg. Original video link: