Originally Posted by
Uplinker
I think the biggest hurdle confronting computers ever having executive control will be their perception, by which I mean how the computer sees and analyses the world around it. The human vision system consists of the eyes and the brain. The eyes produce a rough upside-down image which the brain then processes by removing faults, flipping it over and combining views to give a stereo picture. The brain then uses short term memory to further enhance the scene by combining views of different focus and exposure to create an overall scene. It then uses long term memory to recognise what it is seeing.
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That is extremely simplistic and is an attempt to sell an extraordinarily flawed vision system as ideal.
Our vision system is notoriously quirky and easy to confuse. This is why there are millions of optical illusions. Computers don't suffer from them.
http://www.simplypsychology.org/perc...-theories.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article...-what-you-get/
https://www.newscientist.com/article...ict-the-world/