{"id":198413,"date":"2024-10-28T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/computers-normally-cant-see-optical-illusions-but-a-scientist-combined-ai-with-quantum-mechanics-to-make-it-happen"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:22:25","slug":"computers-normally-cant-see-optical-illusions-but-a-scientist-combined-ai-with-quantum-mechanics-to-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/computers-normally-cant-see-optical-illusions-but-a-scientist-combined-ai-with-quantum-mechanics-to-make-it-happen","title":{"rendered":"Computers normally can\u2019t see optical illusions \u2014 but a scientist combined AI with quantum mechanics to make it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computers-normally-cant-see-optical-illusions-but-a-scientist-combined-ai-with-quantum-mechanics-to-make-it-happen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI system is dubbed a \u201cquantum-tunneling deep neural network\u201d and combines neural networks with quantum tunneling. A deep neural network is a collection of machine learning algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the brain \u2014 with multiple layers of nodes between the input and output. It can model complex non-linear relationships and, unlike conventional neural networks (which include a single layer between input and output) deep neural networks include many hidden layers.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum tunneling, meanwhile, occurs when a subatomic particle, such as an electron or photon (particle of light), effectively passes through an impenetrable barrier. Because a subatomic particle like light can also behave as a wave \u2014 when it is not directly observed it is not in any fixed location \u2014 it has a small but finite probability of being on the other side of the barrier. When sufficient subatomic particles are present, some will \u201ctunnel\u201d through the barrier.<\/p>\n<p>After the data representing the optical illusion passes through the quantum tunneling stage, the slightly altered image is processed by a deep neural network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI system is dubbed a \u201cquantum-tunneling deep neural network\u201d and combines neural networks with quantum tunneling. A deep neural network is a collection of machine learning algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the brain \u2014 with multiple layers of nodes between the input and output. It can model complex non-linear relationships and, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}