It’s not that crappy given that newborns can not only recognize faces with significant accuracy, but also recognize facial expressions.
Do you have a link to that? ‘Newborn’ can mean many things—the visual system starts learning from the second the eyes open, and perhaps even before that through pattern generators projected onto the retina which help to ‘pretrain’ the viscortex.
I know that infants have initial face detectors from the second they open their eyes, but from what I remember reading—they are pretty crappy indeed, and initially can’t tell a human face apart from a simple cartoon with 3 blobs for eyes and mouth.
It seems more likely that there is a single face recognition module which is genetically specified and then it becomes fine tuned by learning.
Except that it isn’t that simple, because—amongst other evidence—congenitally blind people still learn a model and recognizer for attractive people, and can discern someone’s relative beauty by scanning faces with their fingertips.
Even without a concept of “even number”, wouldn’t this neolithic human be able to figure out an algorithm to compute the right answer?
Not sure—we are getting into hypothetical scenarios here. Your visual version, with black and white pebbles laid out in a line, implicitly helps simplify the problem and may guide the priors in the right way. I am reasonably sure that this setup would also help any brain-like AGI.
Do you have a link to that? ‘Newborn’ can mean many things—the visual system starts learning from the second the eyes open, and perhaps even before that through pattern generators projected onto the retina which help to ‘pretrain’ the viscortex.
I know that infants have initial face detectors from the second they open their eyes, but from what I remember reading—they are pretty crappy indeed, and initially can’t tell a human face apart from a simple cartoon with 3 blobs for eyes and mouth.
Except that it isn’t that simple, because—amongst other evidence—congenitally blind people still learn a model and recognizer for attractive people, and can discern someone’s relative beauty by scanning faces with their fingertips.
Not sure—we are getting into hypothetical scenarios here. Your visual version, with black and white pebbles laid out in a line, implicitly helps simplify the problem and may guide the priors in the right way. I am reasonably sure that this setup would also help any brain-like AGI.