Lauren Barghout recounts being asked by Lotfi Zadeh, inventor of fuzzy logic, to define what an edge is, and presents her answer: vision as a five-dimensional space whose fifth dimension is abstraction, populated by “spatial taxons.” She contrasts this fuzzy-logic approach with plateauing convolutional neural network object recognition.
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