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This terrifying photo posted on Twitter is exploding and leaving viewers absolutely baffled.
I can barely name anything in this picture.
Off to the left those look like jewelry display pillows and to the bottom right, I dont know
if thats a stuffed sloth doll, but I want it.
It looks like the arms are even sewed together so I can drape it around my neck like a slow-moving
cape.
This photo isnt just stumping viewers its causing people to feel uncomfortable and even
stressed out at how creepy it is.
Theres actually a reason behind this strange feeling we have when looking at a photo like
this.
Because we cant immediately identify what this bizarre image is we feel uncertainty.
Dr. Frank McAndrew a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois said - When a
person is unsure if something could be harmful, its normal to experience a sense of unease.
We also can get creeped out by confusing things that press competing buttons in our brain,
making it hard for us to categorize or understand what we are looking at.-
Now clearly this is just a photo so we know inherently theres no immediate threat to our
safety, but try telling that to our brain.
Our brain will try to make sense of the image and the more that it doesnt look like something
familiar your feeling of discomfort will just intensify.
An assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School named Dr. Steven Schlozman
had this to say - I think the creepiness comes from our brains attempts at recognizing a
pattern, zeroing in on that pattern, and then having the expected pattern continually disrupted
by another recognizable pattern.- Even the doctor tried to asses the photo adding - I
swear I see a chimp in that photo.
But then it becomes something else, and then something else.
I cant complete the puzzle.
I can get some of it, but never enough to know what im seeing.-
Now that we have the psychology of why we feel creeped out, lets talk about the actual
development of the photo.
Its believed that this viral photo was actually created by an artificial intelligence system.
Janelle Shane, an electrical engineering researcher who trains neural networks believes that AI
learns in the same manner as our brains.
Shane in an interview with Live Science said that she was 95 percent sure the image was
created by a new Google algorithm called BigGAN which composes detailed photos from scratch.
Shane also said - This kind of neural net, called a Generative Adversarial Network, or
GAN for short, learns to generate images from thousands of example photos.
It was trained to generate about 1000 distinct categories of images, but a fun thing about
GAN is that you can also ask them to generate images that are a mix of categories.-
I suppose people have varying definitions of the word FUN because there aint nothing
fun about this photo.
The reason why we cant directly recognize anything in the photo is because the items
in the bizarre picture dont actually exist in real life.
This is NOT real life.
Theyre actually just digital composites of many different objects all blended together
by the A.I.s algorithm.
Its not always a big fail in these AIs creating images though.
The neural network called StyleGAN just recently created very realistic photos of human faces.
Although it also tried to recreate cats which turned into what I imagine hell looks like.
The computer does do a great job all things considered in regards to textures and lighting
it is just having a hard time understanding the basics of how an object works.
We want to hear your thoughts on this story though so comment down below with your attempts
at naming something in this photo.
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