How to Make Computers Dream

A soft introduction to Generative Models

“When one understands the causes, all vanished images can easily
be found again in the brain through the impression of the cause.
This is the true art of memory…”
Rene Descartes, Cogitationes privatae.

Close your eyes (bad opening phrase when you’re trying to convince people to read your article) and imagine a face.

Now imagine a cat. A dog, house, car, sink, a bottle of beer, table, tree.