{"id":176718,"date":"2026-01-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/ai-can-now-see-optical-illusions-what-does-it-tell-us-about-our-own-brains\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:08:09","slug":"ai-can-now-see-optical-illusions-what-does-it-tell-us-about-our-own-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/ai-can-now-see-optical-illusions-what-does-it-tell-us-about-our-own-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can now &#8216;see&#8217; optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20251218-how-ai-is-shedding-new-light-on-optical-illusions\">AI can now &#8216;see&#8217; optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20251218-how-ai-is-shedding-new-light-on-optical-illusions\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20251218-how-ai-is-shedding-new-light-on-optical-illusions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bbc.com\">www.bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ivan Maksymov from Charles Sturt University&#8217;s Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute created a model combining quantum physics and AI to simulate perceptual phenomena like the Necker cube and Rubin vase illusion.<\/li>\n<li>The model uses a deep neural network and the phenomenon of quantum tunnelling to process information and recognize these illusions.<\/li>\n<li>The AI developed by Maksymov can switch between the two interpretations of the illusions over time, mirroring human behavior.<\/li>\n<li>The time intervals for these switches in the AI are similar to those observed in human perception tests.<\/li>\n<li>Maksymov emphasizes the importance of this research field, especially in the context of future human space exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Although the research does not suggest that the brain has quantum properties, it indicates that quantum theory can better model certain aspects of human cognitive processes, such as decision-making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI can now &#8216;see&#8217; optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ychef.files.bbci.co.uk\/624x351\/p0mt4jj0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176722,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176718\/revisions\/176722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}