AI these days, it’s so amazing
This is joint work with Howard Egeth and @ianbphillips.bsky.social. They and Makaela invited me to join partway through the project, and it immediately became one of the most exciting collaborations of my career.
A few years ago, Makaela Nartker began a hugely ambitious project on one of the most important & best-known phenomena in psychology. 25,000 subjects later, she’s sharing her paper showing surprising sensitivity to “unseen” objects in inattentional blindness! 🧵 x.com/NartkerMakae... Preprint 👇
Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.18.593967v1
The relation between attention, perception and awareness is among the most fundamental problems in t
8 faculty, 17 grads + postdocs, from 3 departments, all in one reading group! Grateful for our interdisciplinary community here at Hopkins.
i think this is exactly right, and i'm not aware of any case where something bad actually happened in the real world because of adversarial examples (and that's despite demonstrations by scientists that it's possible). but i admit i stopped paying as close attention to this literature as i used to…