People confuse speech recognition with language understanding, argues Mr Norman.
For the Lisson show, I made some video of camo-designs that are supposed to confuse facial recognition algorithms, people have been playing with this in clothing design and make up.
Tokyo's National Institute of Informatics Professor Isao Echizen's "Privacy Visor" emits an infrared light source that reportedly confuses facial recognition software.
Ben Mauk is a FulbrighTimelines living in Berlin are a regular online confusedtor to the New Yorker.
When you make up your face all tribal-style, or artfully style your hair like a cyberpunk club kid emerging from a weekend-long underground rave, it breaks up the shape of your facial map, confusing the recognition software and rendering it unable to detect you.
In a totally different way, that is what these photographs do - set off a tiny, confusing explosion of recognition and non-recognition; Elton John having a colonic irrigation, the Duke of Edinburgh looking at a naked lovely, Tony looking down Cherie's bikini.
"You're my dad!" Confused at first, recognition soon hits Denver's face, but he doesn't let it show for long.
Such problems may sometimes confuse the methods for emotion recognition.
Without knowing the molecular mechanisms of interactions, one could easily confuse partner fidelity feedback with partner recognition, because both are capable of discriminating partners of varying cooperative qualities.
When people talk about speech recognition, they mean, and often confuse, three different functions.
