23 Creative Applications

We’ve reached the end of the book. Before we go, let’s relax and have some fun. In this chapter we look at some creative ways to use neural networks to create art. We explore two image-based applications: deep dreaming, which turns images into wild, psychedelic art, and neural style transfer, which allows us to transform photographs into what appear to be paintings in the styles of different artists. At the very end, we take a quick dip into text generation and use deep learning to generate even more of this book.

Deep Dreaming

In deep dreaming, we use some ideas that were invented to help us visualize filters in ...

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