Sunday, January 28, 2024

Word of the Day: Pareidolia

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noun 1. The perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines.
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Greek, 1960s
Why This Word?
Humans have a tendency to see faces where there are none (a specific type of pattern recognition called "pareidolia"), but so can computers that are programmed for facial recognition. Pareidolia most commonly manifests as seeing faces within a mass of visual cues, something that facial-recognition software is specifically programmed to do (by recognizing specific patterns of polygons that line up to facial patterns). ...
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