AI vision systems mistake a hairless cat for an elephant because they rely on texture and pixel patterns, while humans recognize objects by shape and context.
This gap poses real risks in self-driving cars and medical imaging.
https://theconversation.com/ai-doesnt-see-the-way-that-you-do-and-that-could-be-a-problem-when-it-categorizes-objects-and-scenes-271481
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