This Deep Learning AI Generated Thousands of Creepy Cat Pictures

Cats are some of the most photogenic animals on the planet, except for when those photos are generated by artificial intelligences. Then, the cute and cuddly creatures become creepy, nightmare cats. Case in point is the Meow Generator, a collection of machine learning algorithms that have been unleashing thousands of disturbing cat faces on the world--15,749 of them, to be exact. These creepy cats are the design of Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, a data scientist with a passion for machine learning and kitties. "I did this to get more practical experience with deep learning, as I want to apply for a PHD next year," Jolicoeur-Martineau told me.