After the first positioning there is no point to point matching at all. The main intelligence comes from the knowledge base of hundreds of 3d scanned faces. This is a huge vector space. And it is no easy task to match a given picture of a face with a vector(=face) within the vector space.
The programmer uses the average face of this vector space and not a special one. You claim the program cannot match a face with a hairlip. Can you prove this? You underestimate the difficulties which are solved by the program and you overestimate the act of the first manual positioning. The mapping and morphing program is no AGI but it is AI and it has the great advantage over AGI that it already works. Your argumentation is the most common one against AI: Say on the one hand: all things computers can do need no intelligence. Say on the other hand: all things computer cannot do but humans can need intelligence which computers never will have. I am sure that the space where you can survive with this opinion soon will become smaller and smaller ;-) -Matthias >>> Mike Tintner wrote Matthias, When a programmer (or cameraman) "macroscopic(ally) positions two faces" - "adjusting them manually" so that they are capable of precise point-to-point matching, that proceeds from an initial act of visual object recognition - and indeed imagination, as I have defined it. He will have taken two originally disparate faces moving through many different not-easily-comparable positions, and recognized their compatibility - by, I would argue, a process of fluid transformation. The programmer accordingly won't put any old two faces together - he won't put one person with a harelip and/or one eye together with a regular face, He won't put a woman with hair over her eyes, together with one whose eyes are unobscured - or one with heavy make-up with one who is clear - or, just possibly, one with cosmetic surgery together with a natural face. The human brain is capable of recognizing the similarities and differences between all such faces - the program isn't. (I think you're being a bit difficult here - I don't think many others - incl. say. Ben - would try to ascribe the powers to these particular programs that you are doing). ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
