Neither hype nor gloom do DNNs justice
Felix A. Wichmann Simon Kornblith Robert Geirhos
Neither the hype exemplified in some exaggerated claims about deep neural
networks (DNNs), nor the gloom expressed by Bowers et al. do DNNs as models in
vision science justice: DNNs rapidly evolve, and today's limitations are often
tomorrow's successes. In addition, providing explanations as well as prediction
and image-computability are model desiderata; one should not be favoured at the
expense of the other.