Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Bob Mottram
Interesting. I assume that OCR programmers already know about this. On 13/03/2008, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit of vision processing fun: http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg --linas --- agi Archives:

Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit of vision processing fun: http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg Interesting: is it possible to construct similar thing in audio form? It'll have to preserve some sequences of sounds, because we learn

Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Linas Vepstas
On 13/03/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit of vision processing fun: http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg Interesting: is it possible to construct similar thing in audio form?

Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Linas Vepstas
On 13/03/2008, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I assume that OCR programmers already know about this. Traditional OCR tries to recognize one letter at a time, together with guidance from a spell checker. For this example, the spell checker would barf, so OCR might get all the

Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Bob Mottram
One thing worth noticing is that it looks like this effect only works provided that words with three letters or fewer are not garbled. I think what this shows is that there is a statistical element to reading. So provided that the beginning and ending characters are correct, and what's in

Re: [agi] if yu cn rd tihs, u slhud tke a look

2008-03-13 Thread Kingma, D.P.
I reckon that the shuffled words (meaningless and low probability) trigger an internal representation that is close enough to the meaning_full_ representation to be correctly classified. One part of this triggered internal representation is about WHAT is present, the other part about WHERE these