Aesthetics
Tom White
Synesthetic Visions
machine perception
interpretability
visual concepts
sparse autoencoders
attention heatmaps
Inside every AI vision system are categories the machine made for itself and patterns it noticed without anyone telling it what to look for. Most don't have human names.
Synesthetic Visions surfaces these visual categories that many independent vision models agreed on. Each print in this series represents a way of seeing that emerged again and again - a visual concept independent of human labels. Glowing regions are where their attention pooled.
Each print is a translation: many machines, one shared way of seeing, made visible to ours.









