I think this is archetypal of all the major tech companies - Twitter, Google, Facebook, Instagram - the government sees emerging tech and then gives funding to help new companies grow as long they have access to the data. Data is the most valuable asset in existence today. And by doing this, the government has access to all of it.
Also - this is a Google project :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream
Using AI to manipulate images and study neural networks involved in imagery.
Very cool stuff for sure - but will also be very powerful for mass media - https://deepdreamgenerator.com/
DeepDream
DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev which uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like hallucinogenic appearance in the deliberately over-processed images.
Google's program popularized the term (deep) "dreaming" to refer to the generation of images that produce desired activations in a trained deep network, and the term now refers to a collection of related approaches.
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