Humans have an impressive ability to recognize faces. Is our face processing system adaptable?

A clever paper shows it isn’t, by measuring our ability to recognize masked faces over the course of the pandemic. Despite lots of practice, we didn’t improve. https://t.co/Cc6UnhM8Po pic.twitter.com/sgYWsJc6kr

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) September 27, 2022

So human facial recognition is like an ASIC.