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AI doesn’t ‘see’ the way that you do, and that could be a problem when it categorizes objects and scenes

  • Written by Arryn Robbins, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond
imageAn AI and a human might classify this mammal with gray, wrinkled skin as very different animals.Richard Bailey/Corbis via Getty Images

Even with no fur in frame, you can easily see that a photo of a hairless Sphynx cat depicts a cat. You wouldn’t mistake it for an elephant.

But many artificial intelligence vision systems would. Why? Because...

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