The Low-Down: Artificial Intelligence Is Learning To See the World - But Not the Way Humans Do

Men are from Mars, algorithms are from...JL Jamie Condliffe reports in MIT Technology Review: Humans have a large pool of common-sense knowledge to draw on, which means they don't get caught out by such tricks. That's something researchers are trying to incorporate into a new breed of intelligent software that understands the semantic visual world. But just because computers don't use the same approach doesn't necessarily mean they're inferior. In fact, they may be better off ignoring the human approach altogether. Computer vision has been having a moment.