Rubin's vase

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Rubin's vase is an ambiguous image, which can be seen as vase or as two faces looking at one another. Human viewers tend to see such images flip quasi-periodically between the two interpretations: vase, then faces, then vase again ... This gives clues as to how the brain deals with ambiguity and hence lessons for computer disambiguation.

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