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Report Copyright Violation | Left to Their Own Devices, Computers Create Trippy, Surrealist Art " Wheeled polychromatic chickens hover beside a dog-headed purple serpent presiding over a jumble of picturesque foreign rooftops. No, you’re not looking at a Dali painting or a rendering of a particularly memorable acid trip. You’re in fact seeing the imagination of a computer program.
To a computer, an image is just a big list of numbers indicating the position and color of its component pixels. But for a long time, getting a computer to interpret these numbers as an abstract version of something in the world—like a dog or a stove—seemed like a pipe dream. For example, verification techniques like CAPTCHA ask you to extract meaning from images (something that robots historically couldn’t do) in order to prove that you’re human. But advances in computer science are making that dream come true—and sometimes, the emergent reality is stranger than anything its creators dreamed of." [ link to www.pbs.org] |
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