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Trump Deep Nightmare: Google's Deep Dream A.I. run against a Donald Trump speech

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Google's image recognition software, which uses artificial neural networks to simulate an actual human brain, is very capable of dreaming . When Google engineers fed photos of random objects to a network taught to identify images of animals, the network "dreamed" of disturbingly distorted dogs and other hybrid creatures, set against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of clouds and mountains. Shortly after publishing the outcome of their experiments, Google developers made the code for the "DeepDream" software public, enabling anyone to feed images into the machine and see what comes out. Fear and Loathing, which stars Johnny Depp as a drug-using hedonist, is basically just one long acid trip. Now that none of us are going to get any sleep tonight, here's a two-minute clip from the movie that was fed through the software:


Some Sadist Ran a Donald Trump Speech Through Google's Neural Network

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Artificially intelligent computers understand Donald Trump not unlike artificially intelligent humans. His speeches read as extended phrases of semi-clarity interrupted by moments of utter horror. The source video is a CNN highlights reel from Donald Trump's presidential candidacy announcement in July 2015. I used audio volume (averaged over each frame) to dictate how deep to dream. For fun, I used a picture of Cthulu as a guide image.