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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

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289 points sandslash | 3 comments | 01 Jul 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.816s | source
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IdealeZahlen ◴[03 Jul 25 06:40 UTC] No.44452291[source]▶
I've always wondered how spatial reasoning appears to be operating quite differently from other cognitive abilities, with significant individual variations. Some people effortlessly parallel park while others struggle with these tasks despite excelling at other forms of pattern recognition. What was particularly intriguing for me is that some people with aphantasia have no difficulty with spatial reasoning tasks, so spatial reasoning may be distinct from reasoning based on internal visualization.
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1. polytely ◴[03 Jul 25 10:53 UTC] No.44453703[source]▶
my theory is that aphantasia is purely about conscious access to visualizing not the existence of the ability to visualise.

I have aphantasia but I would say that spatial reasoning is one of the things my brain is the best at

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2. golol ◴[03 Jul 25 22:58 UTC] No.44459809[source]▶
How does one determine they have aphantasia? How do you know that you are not doing exactly this thing people call visualizing when you perform spatial reasoning?
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3. polytely ◴[04 Jul 25 00:08 UTC] No.44460144[source]▶
No idea, but when people say they can visualize an apple and then say it feels like number 1 on that chart, I would say that my experience of whatever I'm doing when I'm 'visualizing' an apple is more like 4 or 5

https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AppleVi...

I can only assume people are trying to accurately describe their own experience so when my experience seems to differ a lot it seems to me that there is more going on than just confusion about wording.