AI and pareidolia: from false positives to false intelligence [Frédéric Fréry]

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Have you heard of pareidolia? It's a cognitive bias, an illusion, that causes your brain to recognize familiar shapes in ambiguous or inanimate objects—whether they're faces in clouds, animals in rocks, or melodies in mechanical noises. In 1994, a Florida woman was convinced she saw the image of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. After keeping it for ten years, she finally put it up for sale on eBay, where it fetched a somewhat unreasonable price of $28,000. [...]

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