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I would like to see a deep dream selfie ...

Feed it an initial picture (noise, clouds, a selfie) and then backwards manipulate the input to maximize the assessed quality of the "selfie".

I guess that would look pretty funny.

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He did run something like that for cropping. He showed his favourite two "rude" ones at the bottom, where the 'Net cropped out the face of the person taking the selfie.

Actually, he used random crops and selected the highest rated. A "deep dream selfie" would actually run the neural network in reverse so as to generate a completely different image.

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