TFIE024 ML06: An AI velociraptor learns how to turn off the lights

This story deals with how neural nets learn to pay attention to specific features, giving them priority in a continuum of what they pay attention to. This is referred to as salience, a key aspect of how humans pay attention. Neural nets can be trained to have our saliency biases or they can develop their own, ones that will often surprise us. This is a podcast version of the article of the same name on the TFIE Medium publication.