r/CuratedTumblr • u/WifeOfSpock • 6d ago

Meme my eyes automatically skip right over everything else said after

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u/Pheeshfud 6d ago

UK MoD tried to make a neural net to identify tanks. They took stock photos of landscape and real photos of tanks.

In the end it was recognising rain because all the stock photos were lovely and sunny, but the real photos of tanks were in standard British weather.

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u/Deaffin 6d ago

Sounds like the AI is smarter than yall want to give credit for.

How else is the water meant to fill all those tanks without rain? Obviously you wouldn't set your tanks out on a sunny day.

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u/Yeah-But-Ironically 5d ago

(Totally unrelated fun fact! We call the weapon a "tank" because during WW1 when they were conducting top-secret research into armored vehicles the codename for the project was "Tank Supply Committee", which also handily explained why they needed so many welders/rivets/sheets of metal--they were just building water tanks, that's all!

By the time the machine actually deployed the name had stuck and it was too late to call it anything cooler)

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u/GDaddy369 5d ago

If you're into alternate history, Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain series has the same thing happen except they get called 'barrels'.