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Cognitive Psychology for Deep Neural Networks: A Shape Bias Case Study

Posted on 2017 July 9 by polgarp · Tagged in Research, Psychology, Deep neural networks, and Bias
Original link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08606

An awesome research proposing to analyse AI systems with psychological methods. While understanding such systems seems to be a difficult problem now, we have lots of knowledge about how human minds work. And while the two might be not function similarly at all, psychology does provide a nice toolset, and much of design research is applied psychology, since it works with humans too, One more place where existing design (research) knowledge might be useful.

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