Memo Akten’s Learning to See Project: Gloomy Sunday
A deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us.
Humanizing the idea that comprehension is reliant upon tangible concepts really reminds me of the climax in the film CONTACT (1997), so if you have yet to see it — spoiler alert —