DeepMind team members reminisce about 2015 Inceptionism experiments
jm_alexia · x · 2026-08-30
A throwback to 2015 Reservoir Lab memories notes that many alumni joined GoogleDeepMind to work on generative media. A quoted thread explains the 'Inceptionism' technique: backpropagating from a fixed ImageNet class to optimize inputs for trippy visuals, later extended with VGG16 into an infinite zooming video stream where classes were selected via Twitch chat.
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