Now You Can Turn Your Photos Into Computerized Nightmares With 'Deep Dream'

Michelangelo's'Creation of Adam' as seen through Google's Deep Dream Created by digital artist Kyle McDonald using Google's Deep Dream program. Have you ever wondered how your computer sees the world? Spoiler alert: it's the stuff of psychedelic nightmares, as the internet found out last month when Google revealed that in order to sort and categorize images online, it uses an artificial intelligence program that looks for patterns and sometimes gets things wrong, finding random dog faces, swirls, and hands where there are none. Google opened the source code up to developers under the name "DeepDream," and now, a couple new websites have sprung up, including a recent one from Psychic VR Lab and (h/t: Prosthetic Knowledge) and earlier, one from entrepreneur Zain Shah called Deep Neural Net Dreams, or #DeepDream for short. Both take code from Google's AI and let you upload your own photos, transforming them into eerie, computerized dreamscapes.