We love a good optical illusion here at Creative Bloq. Until now, we’ve also been strangely happy in the knowledge that only humans (and cats) can see them while computers can’t. It seemed a nice way of separating man man and machine. A love of optical illusions was part of what made us human. Alas, artificial intelligence has come along to change everything.

We’ve seen already that AI can make optical illusions. But now a researcher has created an AI system that can also perceive them, mimicking the way that humans interpret complex optical illusions.