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The raw sensory inputs to a human brain must also be jittery. Eyes apparently see highest definition detail only in a tiny area of the visual field, for example
by FatalLogic 7y ago
The raw sensory inputs to a human brain must also be jittery. Eyes apparently see highest definition detail only in a tiny area of the visual field, for example. The brain stitches it together, interpolates, tags features, and guesses. The preprocessing miraculously creates the impression of a big clear image out of a dirty data feed from two jello cameras that are swiveling around all the time. There's a lot a smoothing going on.
Imagine if you could see the raw input from an eye - it would be a big field of view, but mostly blurry, mostly not in full color, with a blind spot hole near the center, and the whole image jittering around violently.
One trait of practical real-world intelligence is ignoring 99.9% of everything. It usually works.
- 01100011 7y agoThere's smoothing, but maybe more importantly there is an expectation of continuity and a bias towards likely interpretations. The brain is trying to detect what it already thinks should be there, and not starting from scratch every millisecond. I'm not sure if anyone is doing that with neural nets, but I think we'll keep failing until we do that.
- eru 7y agoYes, mostly. Your brain also cheats and adjusts your memory retrospectively to a certain degree.