Human vs AI Vision

The cluster discusses comparisons between human and AI (neural net) capabilities in image recognition, particularly in tricky scenarios like optical illusions, adversarial examples, and camouflaged objects, debating limitations in abstraction, context, and generalization.

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testrun Jul 10, 2021 View on HN

Not quite the same, show humans one picture of a giraffe and most humans will recognise the animal in different conditions, poses, angles and so on. Any neural net (up till now) has a difficult time doing the same.

taneq Aug 5, 2017 View on HN

I was pondering on this topic earlier today and came to the conclusion, "because our performance is judged only by humans." Imagine if an alien visited Earth, and was completely dumbfounded by our sketches and cartoon drawings. "But it looks nothing like a chicken", they say, looking at a sketch of a chicken and a photo of a chicken. "It's just an edge case that happens to trigger your 'chicken' neuron."

whitepaint Apr 27, 2021 View on HN

What object in a picture can be detected just by a human but not a machine?

guard-of-terra Dec 24, 2015 View on HN

Neural net can see some subtle pattern invisible to human eye, decide it is very representative, and make a guess based on that.Pre-processing seems to be an answer, normalize the image, blank out areas obviously uninteresting to human eye, add dithering.

Aic1kuir Nov 12, 2018 View on HN

It's not just the time. Computers don't have higher reasoning that can cross-check the results with expectations from a more complex world model. So by just flashing images I guess you only activate some earlier parts of the visual processing machinery. So that's quite fair to the computers since their NNs only do primitive pattern checking without reasoning too.

nielsbot Feb 27, 2021 View on HN

Humans are pattern recognizers... what did you expect?

hiimtroymclure Jul 22, 2020 View on HN

its not the eye thats doing the recognition. The human brain is still more impressive than any machine

krehl Mar 8, 2019 View on HN

As the AI has likely not seen anything remotely similar during training, it is quite interesting that it is detecting the animals. As the picture was set up to confuse humans, does it somewhat show, that the representation that the AI learned is similar to the one humans have?

KadirErturk Dec 29, 2025 View on HN

Not really, however it is interesting that how AI can see the picture. It is still a magic to me that it sees pixel different than us

adius Sep 1, 2021 View on HN

Not entirely true. The model can extract image information from the pixels a human might not be able to see. Like how you can enhance the colors in a video of a face in a way that it pulses red with your heartbeat. The information about your heartbeat was there all along, our eyes were just not able to extract / recognize it.