How many animals can one find in a random image?

A more honest title would have been &quot;Check out our animal shape generator&quot;, though I suppose it wouldn&#x27;t sound as interesting.<p>They touch on the cool idea of using an image identification neural network to single out desired shapes from an arbitrarily large corpus of semi-random generated shapes. So the way you program your random generator could determine the style, while the identifier network would determine what will be represented.

I&#x27;m stealing one of those to use as my avatar.<p>For some inexplicable reason, I find this earth-shatteringly fascinating. If such a bewildering array of patterns can be found in random noise, maybe all patterns -- our attempts to ascribe order to the universe -- are illusive.

Interestingly, Whenever I feel like my brain is firing on all cylinders I often think I see old friends in a crowd.

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Can&#x27;t you see anything in any image, given any interpretation?

Awesome ! I also see a lot of living creatures in flames (try to take pictures with a DSLR during 1&#x2F;2000 second ;) ), including phoenixes, seehorses and riders.

No animal shapes are directly visible.

Satire?