Object Transplants Can Confound AI Machine Learning And Autonomous Cars - AI Trends

Have you ever seen the videos that depict a scene in which there is some kind of activity going on such as people tossing a ball to each other and then a gorilla saunters through the background? If you've not seen any such video, it either means you are perhaps watching too many cat videos or that you've not yet been introduced to the concept of inattentional blindness or what some consider an example of selective attention. The gorilla is not a real gorilla, but instead a person in a gorilla suit (wanted to mention this in case you were worried that an actual gorilla was invading human gatherings and that the planet might be headed to the apes!). Overall, the notion is that you become focused on the other activity depicted in the video and fail to notice that a gorilla has ambled into the scene. When I tell people about this phenomenon, and if they've not yet seen one of these videos, they are often quite doubtful that those viewing such videos really did not see the gorilla. Of course, now that I've told you about it, you are not likely to be "fooled" by any such video since you have been forewarned about it. Guess I should have said spoiler alert before I told you about the gorilla. In any case, for those doubters about the assertion that people watching such a video are apt to not notice a gorilla (which, not noticing a squirrel might seem more plausible, I acknowledge), I assure you that a large number of cognition related experiments have been done with the "invisible gorilla" videos and such studies support this claim.