Why psychologists should embrace rather than abandon DNNs.
Journal:
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Published Date:
Dec 6, 2023
Abstract
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful computational models, which generate complex, high-level representations that were missing in previous models of human cognition. By studying these high-level representations, psychologists can now gain new insights into the nature and origin of human high-level vision, which was not possible with traditional handcrafted models. Abandoning DNNs would be a huge oversight for psychological sciences.