When multiple parrot the same 'how is babby formed' meme it makes me think the forum has been invaded by bird people simply echoing the songs they know. Maybe birds and humans aren't so different after all. Squawk?
The question of whether or not when you see something, you see only the light or you see the thing you’re looking at, is one of those dopey philosophical things that an ordinary person has no difficulty with. Even the most profound philosopher, sitting eating his dinner, has many difficulties making out that what he looks at perhaps might only be the light from the steak, but it still implies the existence of the steak which he is able to lift by the fork to his mouth. The philosophers, who were unable to make that analysis, and that idea have fallen by the wayside from hunger.
There's a birdcoin joke in here somewhere. https://youtu.be/7oclPZx520k amazing how they reason about different ways the cap could go in. And I wonder how hard it was to train and how scalable.
The results are visually striking but also to be expected if the sensors already captured the necessary data (to the computer) and is obscured (to the human) by the relative (instead of absolute) perception.
What I find innovative here is the concept of thinking about anything that is hard to do as a human (night vision) but for which we can affect the state of (in this case, the light switch) in order to train a model to overcome the difficulty.
Sorry to belabor the obvious but I thought it was worth a description which may motivate other use cases.
We already have fingerprint reader touchpads on some devices, make those squishy instead of a hard surface and you got yourself a flesh-like feeler.
As for temperature and humidity those sensors can also be included. Although the interesting bit here is how they're integrated/distributed in humans vs how we've classically designed them in robots due to precision concerns as opposed to relative difference.
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