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Gazing into Clever Hans machines

Humans infer much of the intentions of others by just looking at their gaze. Similarly, we want to understand how machine learning systems solve a problem. New tools are developed to find out what strategies a learning machine is using, such as what it is paying attention to when classifying images.

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Hernández-Orallo, J. Gazing into Clever Hans machines. Nat Mach Intell 1, 172–173 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0032-5

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