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00100 The main question that AI needs psychological help in investigating
00200 is - how do people represent information so that certain tasks can be done.
00300
00400 Consider the representation of faces so that they can be recognized.
00500 Suppose we take a collection of girls, all blonds with long straight hair
00600 or some other very common type. How do people tell them apart in the
00700 absence of obvious special features like warts which we shall assume
00800 absent. Presumably by the shape of the face. Query: Can we make a
00900 program that by expanding and contracting parts of the face can transform
01000 a picture of one girl into one that will be mistaken for another. The
01100 thesis would be to try to do this.