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Technology & AIJul 17, 2026

An Exam for Active Observers

Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot.

Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active observation is essential for a wide range of tasks. Whether today's multimodal…

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