Does Google DeepDream tell us what the technological singularity will look like? Topics in this video: Deep Dream, LSD, Ayahuasca, cortical inhibition, hallucination, "futuring", pattern recognition, Carl Jung, microexpressions, and unconscious communication.
This was a tangent we wandered onto while talking about the technological singularity and technophilosophy for this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-awJNz_0o
What does Google Deep Dream tell us about human visual processing? Does it give us insight into what the world will look like to a super-intelligent AI after the singularity?
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