A state-of-the-art convnet trained on millions of images and videos of prehistoric animals in the wild could not recognize an auroch in this picture. But you can. In fact, you can, *even though you have never seen one*.
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Human perception involves considerable amounts of abstraction and symbolic reasoning -- unlike the input-output matching performed by machine "perception" models.pic.twitter.com/REdksXpB1z
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Interestingly, it's a theme explored in art criticism. This article from Roland Barthes is a worthwhile read: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Barthes-Rhetoric-of-the-image-ex.pdf …
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Towards "consciousness prior"...?
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Picasso would have made a great computer vision scientist.
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My book on the matter starts with: "To see, is to reason" in the prologue.
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