Re: AI in FT (was Re: Be gentle...)

Samuel Penn wrote:

> That reminds me of a story (not sure how true it is) we
> got told in our computer vision lectures. An old vision
> recognition system was taught to tell the difference
> between NATO and Russian tanks. It was trained by being
> shown pictures of both sorts of tanks, and after a while
> it did *very* well.
> 
> So well, that someone got suspicious. It seems no-one had
> noticed that the pictures of the NATO tanks had all been
> taken on a bright sunny day, and those of the Russian tanks
> had been taken on a dark, overcast day. The computer was
> merely recognising the weather.

The story is true. My Uncle, (also A.E.Brain) was doing seminal research
on Perceptrons at SRI in 1960, and it was one of his team's initial
attempts that had this problem.

Note the date, 1960. Neural nets for the military have been around for a
while...
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