Computers now better surrealists than Frenchmen

Surreal art? No; it was made by a neural network from this image:

I eagerly await the first neural network contributions to literary theory.

Comments

[Bradel]

Unfortunately, I can't see the first picture.

...or was that the surrealist part?

[SpaceCommie]

Picture is broken. I think this link should work.
i.imgur.com/0Wn7V1Z.png

[Titanium Dragon]

3161148
Wouldn't that already be better than a lot of art?

I like that image, though. It is neat.

[Vic Fontaine]

that's pretty amazing. :)

[Triple Word Score]

To be fair, the average 8-year-old is a better surrealist than a Frenchman.

[Bad Horse]

3161148 3161151 Thanks, though I still see the original image fine. Maybe postimg.org was overloaded?

[TheJediMasterEd]

IF [AWAY] = FALSE
THEN TAUNT[i=2]

[Rao the Red Sun]

I feel like someone draped the Yellow Submarine in the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

[Southpaw]

Fascinating subject, and I love that altered image.

3161180 The URL acts weird in FF and Chrome. Maybe it's just cached for you?

This link seems to work: http://s25.postimg.org/v6mwemql9/ibis_AI.png

s25.postimg.org/v6mwemql9/ibis_AI.png

[Bad Horse]

3161206 Your link doesn't work for me... I'm just gonna use SpaceCommie's link. EDIT: No; his image is smaller.

[Southpaw]

3161238 How odd. It's almost like it's generating a random URL.

[Blagdaross]

TBF, they're still not better than the Spanish.

Honestly, it just looks like I'm viewing the savanna scene with the weirtd color distortion that happens just before you pass out from the heat.

hail hydrate

[Humanoid]

I eagerly await the first neural network contributions to literary theory.

Three words: Markov chain generator. See also, Andrew C. Bulhak's infamous "Dada Engine" and the Postmodernism Generator, as well as the Emperor Norton Utilities.

[Georg]

3161360 I love The Post-Modernism Generator. (done with the Dada Engine)

Sadly, it produces an output indistinguishable from many modern academics, except it is missing the typos.

[Titanium Dragon]

3161180
It works for me, but didn't work for Bribri until I direct linked him.

No clue what the deal is.

[Blue_Paladin42]

3161180
I can't see it either.

[The Ponytrician]

3161347
I tried getting into Spanish Surrealism once... It turned out to be little more than a Dali-ance.

[archonix]

I'd say that's more Expressionism than Surrealism. Some of the images they post later are surrealist for sure.

[kalash93]

BH, that doesn't look like surrealism. As others have said, it's more like expressionism. I wonder how long it'll be until computrs can just write amazing stories. I'll be out of a hobby. T.T

[Bad Horse]

3162236 True. That was just the picture I liked the best.

[archonix]

3163480 It has a certain something about it, aye.

[horizon]

3163480
Personally, the pictures generated from random static at the end of the article were the most fascinating.

1.bp.blogspot.com/-XZ0i0zXOhQk/VYIXdyIL9kI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/UbA6j41w28o/s1600/building-dreams.png

I ran across earlier today this via an article linked on reddit, which made the joke that now we know what androids dream of.