Multisense Realism

Turn your doodles into madness.

I think this is a good example of how AI is ‘inside out’. It does not produce top-down perception and sensations in its own frame of awareness, but rather it is a blind seeking of our top-down perception from a completely alien, unconscious perspective.

The result is not like an infant’s consciousness learning about the world from the inside out and becoming more intelligent, rather it is the opposite. The product is artificial noise woven together from the outside by brute force computation until we can almost mistake its chaotic, mindless, emotionless products for our own reflected awareness.

This particular program appears designed to make patterns that look like monsters to us, but that isn’t why I’m saying its an example of AI being inside out. The point is that this program exposes image processing as a blind process of arithmetic simulation rather than any kind of seeing. The result is a graphic simulacra…a copy with no original which, if we’re not careful, can eventually tease us into accepting it as a genuine artifact of machine experience.

See also: https://multisenserealism.com/2015/11/18/ai-is-inside-out/

Time for an update (6/29/22) to further demonstrate the point:

Added 5/3/2023:

Stochastic filtering is not how sense actually works, but it can seem like how sense works if you’re using stochastic filtering to model sense.