{"id":244853,"date":"2026-10-03T01:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/visual-illusion-reveals-what-todays-ai-vision-is-missing"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:43:42","slug":"visual-illusion-reveals-what-todays-ai-vision-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/visual-illusion-reveals-what-todays-ai-vision-is-missing","title":{"rendered":"Visual illusion reveals what today\u2019s AI vision is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visual-illusion-reveals-what-todays-ai-vision-is-missing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are\u2014and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. A new study by York University researchers uses a common illusion to ask: If artificial intelligence is meant to see more like us, should it make some of the same systematic perceptual \u201cmistakes\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>For example, after staring at something moving steadily in one direction, a stationary object viewed immediately afterward can appear slightly displaced in the opposite direction. This well-known visual illusion, called a motion aftereffect, gives scientists an unusual window into the computations underlying perception: The image itself has not moved, but our experience of where it is has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201cThe macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordinates,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0960982226011978\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in Current Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are\u2014and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. A new study by York University researchers uses a common illusion to ask: If artificial intelligence is meant to see more like us, should it make some of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244853","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}