[crosen99]

> AIs, at their current level of development, don’t perceive objects in the way that we do – they understand commonly occurring patterns.

You see this claim everywhere - that AI operates on statistics and patterns and not actual understanding. But human understanding is entirely about statistics and patterns. When a human sees a collection of particles and recognizes it as, say, a car, all they are doing is recognizing the car-like patterns in how the particles are organized that have a strong statistical correlation with prior observations of things classified as a car. Am I missing something?

[lolc]

After a decade of billions invested in systems with models trained for object recognition in traffic, these models still struggle with object permanence. Why should we expect some rando painter models to do better? They'll paint a lamppost through a car and not notice anything wrong with it.

The day where these models can show shoes under a fence and a reflection of the person behind the fence in an opposing shop window? That day will come. But not on the current crop.

[lamontcg]

We're not (initially anyway) trained on photography and literature and reddit, our first experience of a banana is probably eating one.