Putting the 'eye' in AI: What can computers teach us about human vision?

Studying how AI process visual information could help humans understand our own visual system. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems used for facial recognition are notorious for their racial and gender bias. The lack of diversity in the photographic data used for AI training is usually highlighted as the root cause. Well, it turns out that the human brain has the same problem – and we don't really know why. The own-race bias is a phenomenon where humans struggle differentiating between individuals of another race.