Gwern Branwen personal blog
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.
- Points
- 161
- HN comments
- 61
- Submissions
- 1
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- 14 commenters
AI & Machine LearningScience & Space2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2017 | The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend by JoshTriplett | 161 | 61 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 16 Hacker News comments by 14 different people, from Apr 2018 to Jan 2023.
Most recent:
- gwern · Jan 26, 2023
- DiabloD3 · May 23, 2022
- habitue · Feb 22, 2022
- severak_cz · Dec 17, 2021
- heretoruinurday · Aug 10, 2021
- OscarCunningham · Jul 6, 2021
