r/artificial - I cant conceive of a machine actually seeing colors like we do. The only thing I can see is possible is a computer simply having knowledge based on what color is what. Like having a number represent what color is there but not actually seeing it. Is this how AI works? I cant find anything on google.

Take for instance a computer that records a video and can recognize objects in the video, sure it has a data warehouse somewhere of what each object is, and if it doesn't it could add one once it "learns" what it is. But realistically how is that different from humans? Humans don't know what a color is until they learn what it is, I didn't know red was red until someone told me, and red is only red because it is generally agreed upon what the word red represents. If I see a color and tell you it's red, and an a.i.