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Subject: Dream Machine
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shadow27 3.10.17 - 04:57am
In 2013 neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani had test subjects take hundreds of brief naps in an MRI machine, repeatedly waking them so they could describe their dreams. Kamitani had already isolated the unique brain patterns for certain objects he'd shown subjects while awake. Their brains were scanned for those patterns as they napped, and a computer program automatically turned the basic contents of their dreams into short videos. The study found these were 70 percent accurate compared with what subjects remembered of their real dreams. * +

shadow27 3.10.17 - 04:59am
Two years later Google engineers also captured the dreamlike images of a computer. They fed millions of images into a brain-inspired computer algorithm - a network of artificial neurons - to study how it learned to identify objects. Then they put it through DeepDream, a program that enables the network to build its own algorithm-fueled dreamscape by finding shapes in an image of random visual noise, like the static on an old TV. The computer generated a psychedelic scene from its machine-learned knowledge. As in a dream, previously seen images were reconfigured into new patterns.
It wont be possible to produce a precise recording of human dreams until scientists discover how dreams originate in the brain, says Jack Gallant, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley - or they build an encyclopedia of brain activity that corresponds to every thought. He likens it to building a language translation program: ''You have a language but nothing it references to.'' * +

shadow27 3.10.17 - 05:00am
It's all about developing the syntax * +

shadow27 3.10.17 - 05:17am
Jesus Christ.. Has anyone else processed a picture through that Deepdream thing? * +

psnality 3.10.17 - 07:02am
Dreams are from our past lives in the multiverse * +

poppyt 3.10.17 - 07:34am
That deep dream programme is amazing.... * +

mikeymk 3.10.17 - 07:38am
I rarely remember them, but when I do they often tend to be connected to my current life. * +

musho77 3.10.17 - 10:34am
let me know when they find a way to make it possible so that i can have wet dreams every night as im not getting any in reality * +

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