Hands in Human Dreams Look AI-Generated

Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD
4 min readFeb 6, 2024
Human hands generated by DALLE-2

It’s fun to see the surprising images of human hands produced by generative image models. Why are there so many fingers — or so few? It turns out that this issue may not be unique to AI. Today I learned that the dreaming human brain also has trouble generating images of five-fingered hands.

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Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD

CEO at Cydoc | Physician Scientist | MD + Computer Science PhD | AI/ML Innovator