Yeah I wish there was a library that people with a casual interest could use to just mess around. Or even just use deep-learning based tools built by other people.

I remember when the deep dream thing came out, there was a huge interest by people wanting to experiment with it on their own, or just use the existing code on their own computer. But installing these libraries is very difficult or impossible, particularly on Windows. People were trying to get it to run on virtual machines, which adds complexity and slows it down, and can't take advantage of GPUs which is necessary. They don't work on non-nvidia GPUs, etc.

The best example I found was Brain Simulator (http://www.goodai.com/#!brain-simulator/c81c). Which ran on Windows, had a GUI, and was intended to eventually be used in the game Space Engineers so nontechnical users could experiment with AI algorithms and build robots for the game.