Humans are awful at judging knots - can YOU tell which is strongest?Humans struggle to accurately judge the strength of knots despite their long history and apparent simplicity.
Setting the stage for using AI in language tasks 50 years agoArtificial intelligence is generating significant interest in its applications for language tasks.The study of optical illusions provides deep insights into human perception and cognition.
Did you solve it? The poker puzzle that has everyone fooledThe circumference of a pint glass is often unintuitively longer than the height.Understanding poker hand rankings is crucial to determining the winning hand.
Lloyd Kaufman, Who Saw Answers Behind the Moon Illusion,' Dies at 97Lloyd Kaufman significantly advanced the understanding of the moon illusion, an optical illusion that captivates minds across generations.
It's Shark Season. How Worried Should You Be?Sharks are not as big a threat as commonly believed; fear is often disproportionate to the actual risk.
Think Seeing is Believing? Think AgainThe article discusses the viral incident of 'the dress' and its implications on how we perceive the world.Researchers like Pascal Wallisch have studied the uncertainty in human perception and its impact on reality.
MIT Researchers Advance AI's Peripheral VisionAI given human-like peripheral vision can revolutionize machine perception.MIT study reveals AI models' improved object detection in visual periphery.
AI Is Decoding the Animal KingdomResearchers are using generative AI to study animal languages, but face challenges due to overlapping voices and lack of data.Yossi Yovel points out limitations in human perception and animal communication, as well as biases in human interpretation.
Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans tooEven subtle changes to digital images can affect human perceptionAdversarial images can mislead both AI systems and humans