A fun 2020 paper by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher found that many students who were given a data set to analyze, along with specific questions to answer about it, failed to notice that a scatterplot of the points formed an image of a gorilla. But can AI models spot the gorilla? ...

Now that LLM-based AI tools can analyze data on their own, @chiraag.bsky.social decided to test whether they notice the gorilla, or whether they also seem to experience inattentional blindness—like humans who fail to notice the "invisible gorilla" that @profsimons.bsky.social and I wrote about ...