(inspired, mentored and co-written by Piotr Migdał)

So, what do you see below?

Well, it is a hallway. Though, things may look different at first glance. If you had an impression that it was a slightly more racy picture, you are in a good company — the AI’s mind is as dirty as yours!

Is it really just a coincidence? Or do androids dream of electric porn? And maybe deep neural networks are as susceptible to this kind of optical illusions as people are?

All in all, convolutional neural networks learn to recognize patterns. There are able to create pareidolia… and in this case, it’s about seeing non-existing body parts.