gimulnautti, to random
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

Only cyan, white and black pixels in this image.

Your brain is simulating the rest of the colors.

Wen, to Wyze
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

A Brief History of Automatons That Were Actually People

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-a-human-hiding-behind-that-robot-or-ai/

From the Mechanical Turk to Amazon ‘checkout’ AI, a great short article.

erictleung, to til
@erictleung@mastodon.social avatar

about the Jastrow illusion, where two identical train track-like items will appear different

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastrow_illusion?wprov=sfla1

stoicmike, to random
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Free_Press, to art
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

The Art Museum of Illusions in Prague is a fascinating world of unreal optical tricks and large-format mirages

Just look at the divided chair or "Purism" based on Patrick Hughes, in which it is easy to get lost .

video/mp4

Wen, to random
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

UK council could go bust due to £60m hole in special needs spending

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/13/uk-council-bournemouth-christchurch-poole-could-go-bust-due-to-60m-hole-in-special-needs-spending

What a surprise after years of Tory cuts to local government funding while loading them with responsibilities. And it has a knock on effect of Scottish, Welsh and NI local government as well. More to come.

But what is a bit of neglect if you can pretend to cut taxes for the richest while hiding effective rises for the majority of us.

shamphalai, to Bretagne French
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Dis :mastodon:, ce serait très gentil de ta part de prendre connaissance du poste ci-dessous, et de le partager en masse.
Il s'agit de mon frère et de sa femme, leur spectacle est top !
Ils sont en et se déplacent partout !

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shamphalai,
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The perception of silence (www.pnas.org)

Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual view (we literally hear silence), and the cognitive view (we only judge or infer silence). Here, we take an empirical approach to resolve this theoretical controversy. We...

rowan_m, to random
@rowan_m@mastodon.social avatar

I love , but I especially love illusions that work differently on screens versus real life. So here's another classic: Newton's disc.

⚠️ I am not responsible for your .
https://newtons-disc.glitch.me/

annaleen, to random
@annaleen@wandering.shop avatar

"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@annaleen
@simon

"...While very primitive, the #AI behind #SocialMedia was sufficient to create a curtain of illusions that increased societal #polarization, undermined our mental health and unraveled democracy. Millions of people have confused these #illusions with reality. [Willingly, and often even fanatically.]

The United States has the best information technology in history, yet U.S. citizens can...

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@annaleen

@simon

... no longer agree on who won elections...

Large language models [#LLMs are our second contact with A.I. We cannot afford to lose again.

/END

#ai #socialmedia #polarization #illusions

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