State-of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence Can't Tell What's in These Simple Pictures

To Clune, the findings suggest that neural networks develop a variety of visual cues that help them identify objects. These cues might seem familiar to humans, as in the case of the school bus, or they might not. The results with the static-y images suggest that, at least sometimes, these cues can be very granular. Perhaps in training, the network notices that a string of "green pixel, green pixel, purple pixel, green pixel" is common among images of peacocks. When the images generated by Clune and his team happen on that same string, they trigger a "peacock" identification.