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And there’s that famous computer vision story of a model that was supposed to detect tanks in images but actually just detected whether or not it was sunny (all
by fossuser 5y ago
And there’s that famous computer vision story of a model that was supposed to detect tanks in images but actually just detected whether or not it was sunny (all the tank pictures in the training set were sunny, non tanks overcast).
Children will make similar classification errors when learning too.
None of this means that it’s not possible they can also learn counting, but just that scientists need to be clever about experimental design. The book goes into that.
- heretoruinurday 5y agoThe tank story is urban legend. https://www.gwern.net/Tanks https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
- fossuser 5y agoThanks - good to know the truth around that specific story. The example and class of failure (even if it didn't actually occur in this specific case) is still the point I was trying to make. Those types of failures can happen - even if the specifics of the tank example are urban legend.