Hadn’t seen this piece from @gwern before; it’s incredible. gwern.net/Tanks

The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend

AI folklore tells a story about a neural network trained to detect tanks which instead learned to detect time of day; investigating, this probably never happened.

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Replying to @josephreisinger @gwern
Heard the story in 1984 with pigeons instead of neural nets

12:47 AM · Oct 17, 2017

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they have better eyes than we do, their brains are small but neurally dense. and they can apparently detect cancer. ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/fe…
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