Machine Learning is Fun Part 7: Abusing Generative Adversarial Networks to Make 8-bit Pixel Art

So why exactly are AI researchers building complex systems to generate slightly wonky-looking pictures of bedrooms? The idea is that if you can generate pictures of something, you must have an understanding of it. You instantly know this is a picture of a dog -- a furry thing with four legs and a tail. But to a computer, the picture is just a grid of numbers representing the color of each pixel. The computer has no understanding that the picture represents a concept.