This reminds me of dreaming. Either there's a similarity between dreaming and what this AI is doing or my human brain is stereotypically finding patterns where there are none.
I felt the same way using GPT-2 and AI Dungeon back in the day. The surrealism and incredibly short-term memory was a big part of the fun.
Yeah, I tend to agree. I think there is a familiarity and if you read up on how AI generates images it kind of works like that where it builds and amplifies noise or existing structure as a seed of a plausible image. Our perception of reality probably works like this except we are getting some good consistent information from our eyes - using the same apparatus with blank inputs or noise or shifting memories then you get some interesting output.