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by exporectomy 1746 days ago
Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces. So what's obviously different to us might not be so clear to an AI or another species.
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OneEyedRobot 1746 days ago
>Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces.

It would be interesting to test a bunch of midwesterners at their ability to tell Asians apart or to be able to distinguish various Asian ethnicities. My guess is that a lot of the distinguishing features that they look for are altered or missing.

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maweki 1746 days ago
And while that is probably true for most of us and gorilla faces, even those midwesterners would easily distinguish an Asian person from a Gorilla.

It's true that we're good at recognizing faces (even where there are none), and distinguishing on a basic level (type of animal) but specific faces are mostly cultural.

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MisterBastahrd 1746 days ago
Us humans can tell the difference between a human eye and a gorilla eye 100% of the time because it's incredibly easy.
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exporectomy 1746 days ago
What a silly claim. If there was a way we could easily put money on that, I'd have no trouble finding an example to prove you wrong.
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