A new tool from Google and OpenAI lets us better see through the eyes of artificial intelligence
What does the world look like to AI?
Researchers have puzzled this for decades, but in recent years the question has become more pressing. Machine vision systems are being deployed in more and more areas of life, from healthcare to self-driving cars, but ”seeing” through the eyes of a machine — understanding why it classified that person as a pedestrian but that one as a signpost — is still a challenge. Our inability to do so could have serious, even fatal, consequences. And some would say it already has, as with the deaths involving self-driving cars.
New research from Google and nonprofit lab OpenAI hopes to further prise open the black box of AI vision by mapping the visual data these systems use to understand the world. The method,...