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Two minute papers did a quick overview of this paper last month: https://youtu.be/BS2la3C-TYc https://youtu.be/BS2la3C-TYc

• infogulch 5y ago
  I'm not sure I agree with the "not human like" angle on this one. Is this not what our brain and visual system is doing all the time? I look at a glass of water on a table. I perceive the same glass whether I'm looking at it directly, towards the side of it, from my periphery, or even closing my eyes. Which input neurons are directly perceiving the glass actually changes drastically between these states, indeed even while just looking at it straight on your eyes imperceptibly twitch to intentionally introduce jitter in order to pick up more detail (this is called "saccades"). Include other senses and the number of ways that you can perceive something explodes combinatorially. Yet I perceive the glass as a single permanent object nearly the same in all of those scenarios despite the fact that my perception of it is varying rapidly -- this is so automatic and ingrained that you don't even conceptualize it as something that you do unless you pay attention. That's what makes this cool and VERY human-like. Just because our visual system isn't set up to handle this particular type of reshuffling problem doesn't mean that we don't constantly have to handle the reshuffling of inputs to maintain a coherent view of reality.