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I wonder if there are more 'universal' images that would be able to have the same effect across populations? I could imagine this type of thing going in art galleries, evoking different tailored emotions.
JFC. This thing is a monkey nightmare machine. https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire... For sure, those are very likely images of fear. If you wanna call them “highly stimulating” well... That’s probably not untrue. But the only thing that the monkey is likely finding “stimulating” about familiar people in surgical masks is an association with pain and terror. Note the odd expressionless faces…
You seem to be anthropomorphizing the neuron. This work is pretty innovative: We've used this technique to generate similar images of computer neural networks to try to figure out what a given neuron or layer is actually learning: http://yosinski.com/deepvis Now, we're monitoring a biological neuron with the same technique, and coming up with similar feature selection . That both validates the approach we've been tak…