Comments on: Coming soon: Computer finds the face of Jesus in a photo of toast http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: jmccance http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1504470 jmccance Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1504470 I used to work at a supercomputer center, where part of my job was scanning the currently running jobs to identify anything that was misbehaving. On one of these sweeps I found a process named "jesus_finder" running. Turned out it was a piece of facial-recognition software designed to learn and identify images of the traditional euro-Jesus. One of the test images was, of course, Jesus on Toast. I used to work at a supercomputer center, where part of my job was scanning the currently running jobs to identify anything that was misbehaving. On one of these sweeps I found a process named “jesus_finder” running. Turned out it was a piece of facial-recognition software designed to learn and identify images of the traditional euro-Jesus. One of the test images was, of course, Jesus on Toast.

]]> By: AnthonyC http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1502537 AnthonyC Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1502537 if (bIsFaceOfJesus) {Worship()} else {Eat()} if (bIsFaceOfJesus) {Worship()} else {Eat()}

]]> By: BillStewart2012 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1502397 BillStewart2012 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1502397 One of the interesting effects of psychedelics is that your brain apparently spends a lot of its time doing this sort of pattern-matching, and tripping slows down the filters that throw away most of the obvious false matches.  Like the faces in all those trees that are grooving along with you on the way home after the Grateful Dead concert.  (Or, umm, so they say anyway.)  One of the interesting effects of psychedelics is that your brain apparently spends a lot of its time doing this sort of pattern-matching, and tripping slows down the filters that throw away most of the obvious false matches.  Like the faces in all those trees that are grooving along with you on the way home after the Grateful Dead concert. 

(Or, umm, so they say anyway.) 

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1501989 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1501989 I'm sorry.  What? I’m sorry.  What?

]]> By: silkox http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1501881 silkox Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1501881 If a computer says it's the face of Jesus, it must be true! If a computer says it’s the face of Jesus, it must be true!

]]> By: JoeBuck http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1501665 JoeBuck Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1501665 Every pattern recognition system suffers from false positives (you see something that isn't there) as well as false negatives (you miss something that is there). With computers, we can tweak the threshold to be more sensitive or less sensitive. Evolution has tweaked us in favor of false positives, since it's far better to be spooked by a shadow that looks like a predator than to fail to notice a real predator. Every pattern recognition system suffers from false positives (you see something that isn’t there) as well as false negatives (you miss something that is there). With computers, we can tweak the threshold to be more sensitive or less sensitive. Evolution has tweaked us in favor of false positives, since it’s far better to be spooked by a shadow that looks like a predator than to fail to notice a real predator.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/coming-soon-computer-finds-th.html#comment-1501667 Brainspore Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=175416#comment-1501667 So do those computers feel bad about feeding on the faces of little surprised people? So do those computers feel bad about feeding on the faces of little surprised people?

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