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Optical illusions are adversarial samples engineered to trick the biological neural networks making up our visual system to perceive things that in reality are
by cs702 4y ago
Optical illusions are adversarial samples engineered to trick the biological neural networks making up our visual system to perceive things that in reality are not there.
Like the OP, I found the "changing room illusion" very powerful, because it showed me how shockingly unreliable my own visual system can be! Magicians do this to us on a regular basis.
Luckily for all of us, no one appears to be using these kinds of adversarial samples to fool us in dangerous situations, e.g., when we're driving vehicles on a fast highway.
- Comevius 4y agoTechnically our visual system making things up is the norm. It has to do a lot of predicting using a known distribution, because our eyes are fairly economical in their design. People always say how come evolution could make the human body so perfect, but that's the illusion, many of our limitations are hidden from us. If we would have a better understanding of our limitations we wouldn't lose 1.3 million people each year to road traffic deaths.