Android Dreams: Google's Neural Network Reveals AI Art

Those of us working in creative fields have often consoled ourselves that although automation may claim many other jobs, at least robots can't make art. That's not exactly true for a variety of reasons (depending on how you define'art'), but it really goes out the window when you look at these astonishing images released recently by Google. The landscapes produced on the company's image recognition neural network reveal the answer to the question, "Can artificial intelligence dream?" It turns out that it can – sort of. Google created a method to'teach' its neural network to identify features like animals, buildings and objects in photographs.