Computer Vision

Ever wonder how your phone unlocks with your face or how self-driving cars see the road? That’s computer vision—AI trained to understand images and video. This post dives into how it works, what it can do, and why teaching machines to ‘see’ is both powerful and weirdly philosophical. ___ Why did my classifier just mistake a turtle for a rifle? MIT News explains how researchers used a 3D-printed turtle to fool an image classifier into thinking it was a rifle—highlighting the strange vulnerabilities of computer vision. ___ Episode Music by Eric Lund.