I went to a conference on Thursday to learn about learning algorithms and one of the vision systems demo-ed experienced the same optical illusions as people do: the model neurons that sense edges fired when given sensory input with implied shapes, just like ours. I’ll be playing with this stuff quite a bit this year, I hope, because some of these algorithms and vision systems are showing real promise for use in production applications.

I went to a conference on Thursday to learn about learning algorithms and one of the vision systems demo-ed experienced the same optical illusions as people do: the model neurons that sense edges fired when given sensory input with implied shapes, just like ours. I’ll be playing with this stuff quite a bit this year, I hope, because some of these algorithms and vision systems are showing real promise for use in production applications.