Elon Musk tweeted a photo that he said showed his bedside table on Monday. Objects on the table include cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke and what appear to be two replica guns.

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But now, in a process Google's engineers are calling "inceptionism," these artificial intelligence networks were fed random images of landscapes and static noise.What they get back sheds light on ...