Summary of Vision Language Models See What You Want but Not What You See, by Qingying Gao et al.
Vision Language Models See What You Want but not What You See
by Qingying Gao, Yijiang Li, Haiyun Lyu, Haoran Sun, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the development of human-level artificial intelligence by endowing machines with theory-of-mind abilities, specifically understanding intentions and taking perspectives. The authors construct two benchmarks, IntentBench and PerspectBench, comprising over 300 cognitive experiments grounded in real-world scenarios and classic tasks. They find that Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at intentionality understanding but struggle with level-2 perspective-taking, suggesting a potential dissociation between simulation and theory-based abilities. This highlights concerns about VLMs’ capacity for model-based reasoning to infer others’ mental states. The study’s findings have implications for the development of more human-like AI. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to make machines smarter by giving them the ability to understand what others are thinking and feeling. To do this, they created a set of tests that mimic real-life situations, such as understanding someone’s intentions or seeing things from their perspective. The researchers found that the machines were good at understanding intentions but struggled with putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. This is important because it shows that we need to work on making machines more able to think like humans. |
