Original post author: Ryan
This is a great image that was generated by an artificial neural network. The neural network was very likely configured to apply the "style" of various romantic-era paintings to the "content" of this famous painting of Napoleon. I am not sure if this brilliant and bizarre output was intended, but I like it.
The behavior of artificial neural networks has strange parallels with our human brains (hence the name). This image exploits those parallels. When glancing at it, our brain quickly identifies it as Napoleon - but upon closer inspection, the image is complete nonsense!
Here are a few other examples: <1>, <2>, <3>, <4> (Artist credit: https://bengautti.com/)
If you're intrigued, you can read this blog post by google and this technical paper for more details.
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