https://www.quantamagazine.org/same-or-different-ai-cant-tell-20210623/
Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks.
John Pavlus
Contributing Writer
June 23, 2021
“One of the most powerful classes of artificial intelligence systems, known as convolutional neural networks or CNNs… can be trained to perform a range of sophisticated tasks better than humans can… But recent research has shown that CNNs can tell if two simple visual patterns are identical or not only under very limited conditions. Vary those conditions even slightly, and the network’s performance plunges.”