EP41 - The Pixel's Gaze: How Computer Vision Teaches Machines to See

We effortlessly unlock our phones with a glance, and our photo apps magically sort faces. It feels like computers just *see* the world like we do. But beneath the surface, it’s a black box. How does a machine transform a meaningless grid of numbers into a recognized face or a bounding box around a cat? This episode deconstructs the surprising journey of computer vision, revealing the mathematical alchemy that teaches artificial intelligence to perceive.