Now You Can See What Google's Algorithms Are Thinking

It gets weird!`

This is the Google logo you know, but with one major difference

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Not the people at Google (the company) — the artificial neural network that lets Google (the tool) recognize images.

These neural networks — which Google uses for products like reverse image search — get "trained" by looking at thousands of images, identifying features in them until they understand what, say, a tree looks like.

But when Google tries to let the neural network make images on its own, things get weird. This is what happens with dumbbells:

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As you can see, it doesn't work great — the network had trouble telling apart arms and the weights they're holding, so it created these horrific dumbbell-arm hybrid images.

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