Name one thing in this photo
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Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence": 0.719 }, "confidence": 0.716 } ]
Tags [ { "name": "wall", "confidence": 0.9889654 }, { "name": "indoor", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "doll", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "person", "confidence": 0.966689169 }, { "name": "toy", "confidence": 0.5887871 }, { "name": "collection", "confidence": 0.535430968 }, { "name": "bear", "confidence": 0.432904869 }, { "name": "christmas", "confidence": 0.351226926 }, { "name": "animal", "confidence": 0.350886434 }, { "name": "family", "confidence": 0.3459218 } ]
Description { "tags": [ "indoor", "table", "sitting", "food", "dog", "woman", "black", "bear", "holding", "standing", "man", "room", "people", "bed", "group", "stuffed", "red", "kitchen" ], "captions": [ { "text": "a group of stuffed animals sitting on top of a table", "confidence": 0.764803648 } ] }
Furniture - 94.8 %, Apparel - 93.8 %, Clothing - 93.8 %, Home Decor - 93.6 %, Table - 85.3 %, Pet - 77.9 %, Mammal - 77.9 %, Cat - 77.9 %, Animal - 77.9 %, Toy - 67.9 %
It's surprisingly confident.
Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ...
“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.
This picture, on the other hand, is nothing like a 'visual nonsense poem' for me. It's artificially generated and not aesthetically pleasing. It's mildly disconcerting and beyond that, uninteresting.
I recommend Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis by Michael Parsons, can be found online easily.
We should try not to physically mount a meatspace DDOS ... but the creator of GANbreeder is hosting a GANparty in Berkeley May 3rd.... https://ganbreeder.app/party
GANbreeder in turn uses BigGAN.
The crazy part to me was that I realized something was wrong, but it never occurred to me to ask for help. I tried to stubbornly keep working. I was trying to set up IIS at the time. I knew what I was roughly doing, but I kept forgetting what I was specifically doing. Reading those chat logs reminds me that even my own brain can fail me.
https://migraineagain.com/migraine-babble-words-get-jumbled/
Please don't support this type of virality and profiteering. It's disgusting.
Presumably I've just been whooshed.
As a side note, I'm fit and not diabetic but making people who struggle with glucose control walk past all these snacks is just evil—or ar the very least highly insensitive. Profit first, damn the sick! :(
Incidentally, CVS Pharmacy isn't a shady internet thing, they're a longstanding US brick'n'mortar chain. I think this is supposed to be a joke, just a rather obtuse one.
> how stupid are people lol.
My thoughts exactly.
To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture.
Does anyone else have the same experience?
I find this mildly amusing, but I do the surreal and bizarre for entertainment routinely anyhow. But for the same reasons that I seek out those sensations, I find myself having sympathy for those who rather than seeking them out for occasional changes of pace, can't get away from them as they are haunted every moment of the day and night. That would be much less fun, to put it exceedingly mildly.
I suspect the people who feel most uncomfortable are the most vocal. Would be interesting to do a poll.
At first glance it's "oh easy I can easily spot something in there, like that... Oh... Uh?"
I guess its been crafted to tickle the pattern matching part of the brain, so it looks familiar, but not? Like the uncanny valley?
Frame it differently and people would be more likely to go “huh, that’s weird”
Or, to put it another way, we normally have experience A and this picture is giving us experience B, but the baby doesn't have the neural nets set up to support either such experience, and so has experience Zero, which we can't match by having B.
Still, I don't argue the core point. Words are flexible and I can probably jam some word onto pretty much image, but I won't deny this image is quite resistant to that.
And there's a cheese grater on the left
This would be great for a Lovecraftian horror movie like Birdbox, when you want to give a glimpse of what indecipherable monster the characters are looking at just before they go crazy and kill themselves.
Also - the generator probably uses an autoencoder to generate the images, which might explain the 'how' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder.
I hope that explanation wasn't too dull!
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¹ Any is too much
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t...
From the thread's title:
> This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything
My understanding is that it's entirely comprised of sampled clips. A triumph of sound engineering.
> The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, vaguely reminiscent of Bob Dylan, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right". Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers.
And another: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yU2wkD-gbzI
It looks to me like a random deep dream pic.
EDIT: here's an even earlier source, from over a week ago (note: thread contains other strange but mostly safe for work images) http://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/22512161/cursed-image-th.... 512x512 seems like a more likely size for the image to have been generated at, at least.
EDIT 2: here's yet an earlier source, from March 10: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2IkGylneb/. Someone in the Twitter thread mentioned this as being the original source.
This guy[0] is in pretty good shape. Albeit likely drunk and "watch this!" stupid.
instagram->4chan->crappy content aggregator->reddit->HN
That sounds pretty scientific. Does anybody have a (citable) reference or scientific publication where this was published? Would like to read more about it.
The picture has an ear in it, so I guess someone merged two wildly different pictures in GANbreeder and the redditor just took it for some internet upvotes.
It's hard to quantify just how scary losing that connection to reality is.
I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.
For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it. Do you have some detail on what you think it's the brain shutting down rather than an effect on the eyes themselves?
>For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it.
Are you aware of the shade or does it behave like your blind spot? Because I've had a few instances in my life where it felt like my blind spot took up a much larger portion of my vision. I've also had the shaking then suddenly starting to profusely sweat that goes away when I eat something.
[0] https://atlasofscience.org/stroke-mimics-why-we-need-to-cons...
The second time happened at work and a co-worker brought me to the hospital. Turned out I was having a migraine attack with aura.
The third time happened at work again. I took an aspirin and took it easy for about an hour. My project manager asked me to go home, but that felt more troublesome to me than just sitting it out.
starts as a small spot right in the "centre of vision". then it grows until I can't see anything at all.
Then vision comes back and is replaced by a headache so bad, even the tiniest movement hurts like a knife cut.
Then I sleep between 4 and 12 hours. The day after I'm something like hung over and the day after that it's like nothing happened.
Luckily, I don't get it often any more :-) But it's hard to explain to other people when it happens.
the good thing about the aura is I get a warning what's about to come, usually it means I can get home before it breaks out.
I can only remember once when the headache broke out before I got home and I started sobbing like a baby on the bus. An old lady worriedly asked me if I needed help and I don't really remember how I got home.
I'm bad about drinking water
Mountaineering is strenuous and all-day enough that you drink water all day, and hyponatremia is a serious concern from drinking straight water for some people, like me. So what I normally do is mix up some Nuun and drink that every few hours. If I get in a bad way and run completely out of water. then I will mix up a liter of ORS and down that. But that's an emergency kind of thing for me because one of the side-effects I've noticed is that ORS will make you thirsty sometimes.
As to it being brain rather than eyes - I had a seizure once I was in hospital (I’m not epileptic or anything of the sort), and I was unable to assemble any thoughts much beyond unbelievable thirst - although my eyes were also affected - blurred and double vision.
My K levels were about 1.5 - imminent death zone. Heart kept stopping and starting. Thank Cthulhu for Hartmann’s solution.
I also greatly lost faith in the medical establishment - they failed to diagnose me, and carried out an unnecessary surgery which made matters worse.
I spent years excluding things from my lifestyle and diet to figure out what was making me ill to no avail.
I finally left my business, as I was getting to the point that I was in a perpetual cycle of being ill and frantically catching up, which was immensely stressful over the last five years or so of my tenure there, and about six months later, the vomiting stopped. It’s now been years.
I never took chronic stress seriously - now I do. It nearly killed me.
I'd see my vision fade to yellow from the outside in. At 12 I had every damned test done by an ophthalmologist, only to come up empty. Much later, I had blood drawn for a test and when I stood after the same thing happened, but worse, and from everyone else's pov I fainted (I could hear and think, but not see or move). That's when I realized the issue was sudden blood pressure drops.
Sometimes this was accompanied by sugar lows, sometimes not.
Mind you, I never saw anything like the picture we're discussing here.
I have had my episode of panic attack and just looking at that picture made me feel some of those bad feelings again. Really weird.
I find it very curious how much these neural-net-driven visualizations map onto human neurological experiences - for example, deep dream resembling an acid trip. That makes me feel like, at least on a cursory level, that neural nets are a step in the right direction to meeting "human intelligence".