Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of its Deep Dream neural network software, Google has announced that starting on Monday it will fold Google Street View into the Deep Dream project. “All images now up on Google Street View will now be processed using Deep Dream,” Google spokeswoman Florilla Panganaban explained. “Deep Dream Street View will allow users to see how many Slugdogs they may encounter in any neighborhood they plan to visit.”
Here are some examples of what to expect when Google makes the big change.
NOTE: Nothing in this post is actually true. BUT THE SLUGDOGS ARE REAL. ALL TOO HORRIFYINGLY REAL. Do note let yourself fall asleep. That is when they come.
Awww, the slugdogs are adorbz!
Why do yours come out with so much going on, but mine barely get changed at all?
Heehee…. Brilliant!
This totally should happen. I mean, in Real Life. I mean, slugdogs slithering and oozing across the streets.
My hometown suddenly doesn’t look so homey…
http://i.imgur.com/Uf4Irf1.jpg
Why are so many of the dogslugs (and one boarslug) bleeding from their mouths? o__o
You are having WAAAAY too much fun with the slugdogs. 🙂
David, I can’t help noticing the proliferation of Deep Dream posts lately. While I’m enjoying them hugely, I hope an intervention is not needed. You can stop at any time, right?
(BTW, I did snort laughing at this post. Very clever.)
What creeps me out is that these are outdoor pics. I start to wonder if reality is what I think it is just because my bio eyes filter it a certain way, and whether slugdog reality isn’t just as real for other beings with other visual setups. And that’s a scary thought.
If you went through the photos used to train these neural networks to identify animal faces, could you find these specific faces? Also, why does every animal seem to have the same pattern on its fur?
What I’m gathering is that Google either has become or was always a Great Old One.
This explains some things.
Happy April 1st.
…right? This is a joke, right?
I think this is what the warp in warhammer looks like
http://i.imgur.com/ZlWZ3v6.jpg
CONFIRMED.
In his house at California, dead Google waits Deep Dreaming.
@SFHC:
It’s a good thing they’re supposed to be unfathomable, otherwise I’d be spending far more time than I should trying to comprehend that image.
(The kicker is that the arms, wings, and tentacles are still somewhat recognizable.)
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
Nooooooooooooo! You gotta take a left at the angry furry purple eyeball with ONE hoof, not three! Look at Google Deep Dream View AGAIN! See you when you get here.
I’m dying of laughter. Thanks for this.
David, I think you may be having too much fun.
I for one welcome our slugdog overlords.
Nooooooooooooo! You gotta take a left at the angry furry purple eyeball with ONE hoof, not three! Look at Google Deep Dream View AGAIN! See you when you get here.
What I don’t understand is, why dogs? Wasn’t this thing taught using pics on the Internet? Isn’t the Internet mostly for cats?
I’ve heard that, despite appearances, there are actually more dog pictures on the internet than cat pictures. But I don’t know that I believe it.
They’re either a few months too late or almost a year too early,
I gotta complaint! All these images you’ve been posting are giving me some major acid flashbacks, maaaaan.
Deep dream can be trained on any set of pics. The filter they made public was trained on a set of pics full of eyes and dogs. I’ve been using a site that uses that filter and a few others that are similarly weird and psychedelic. People running the software on their own computers can train it on their own pics.
It’s object recognition software being used in a deliberately “wrong” way.
I’ve got one more silly deep dream post in the works, but Im not turning this into a deep dream blog or anything.