Artificial brain fooled by optical illusions

File this under so bleeding edge it's scary. Scientists have found that when you program a computer to detect and predict color distribution in any given field based on the way a human child would learn to do it, the computer falls for the same optical illusions we do. The computer sees two shades of gray in the bars above, like we do. There is only one. This illusion is based on the way our brain uses contrast to detect line, shade, and depth.