A Machine's Dream of Food

Leo Isikdogan

September 15, 2021

Very little is known about how the brain encodes the taste of food and creates the sensation of taste. This work is an artistic attempt to visualize an artificial neural network's perception of food. It's a machine's dream of food it can never taste, if you will. 'A Machine's Dream of Food' was generated using an artificial neural network that neither eats nor has an internal representation of what 'taste' means. Nevertheless, it seems to have good taste!