Exploring Neural Networks : Activation Atlases

Just announced by OpenAi and Google:

What have neural networks learned that allows them to classify images so well?

Activation Atlases provide a new way to peer into convolutional vision networks, giving a global, hierarchical, and human-interpretable overview of concepts within the hidden layers of a network. We think of activation atlases as revealing a machine-learned alphabet for images — an array of simple, atomic concepts that are combined and recombined to form much more complex visual ideas. [text from google AI blog]

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