Practical application of visual illusions: errare humanum est

  • Authors:
  • Gavin Brelstaff;Francesca Chessa

  • Affiliations:
  • CRS4 Sardinia, Italy;University of Sassari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • APGV '05 Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

As a failing peculiar to animate visual systems, visual illusions might be used to distinguish humans from "computer bots", or any other artificial intelligence empowered with a visual capacity. Any such entity is unlikely to suffer the same illusions as our own, unless, of course, it has been specifically engineered to do so. This approach inverts, and complements, the logic of the Turing test: not requiring evidence of an intelligent capacity equivalent to that of human beings, but rather that of a characteristic human failing.