This is a small point, so feel free to dismiss, but “Below, a neuron responds to two types of animal faces, and also to car bodies.” It might be more accurate to say ‘car faces’ or ‘car fronts’ instead of ‘car bodies’.
The primary evidence for this is that the images in the dataset that the neuron responds to appear to predominantly be car faces rather than sides or rears:
While the following isn’t evidence, note that this also matches our human intuition— there is something in common between the ‘face’ of a car and the ‘face’ of an animal.
A more definitive test would be to see the level of activation from car sides or rears. I wasn’t able to easily determine this using this neurons page in Microscope but could see extending microscope to make this type of investigation easier.
This is a small point, so feel free to dismiss, but “Below, a neuron responds to two types of animal faces, and also to car bodies.” It might be more accurate to say ‘car faces’ or ‘car fronts’ instead of ‘car bodies’.
The primary evidence for this is that the images in the dataset that the neuron responds to appear to predominantly be car faces rather than sides or rears:
While the following isn’t evidence, note that this also matches our human intuition— there is something in common between the ‘face’ of a car and the ‘face’ of an animal.
A more definitive test would be to see the level of activation from car sides or rears. I wasn’t able to easily determine this using this neurons page in Microscope but could see extending microscope to make this type of investigation easier.
Thanks for your excellent work folks 🙏