‘Enjoy the brief moment your brain says this is a photo of a crowd at a concert’
Well, this is weird.
Enjoy that brief moment where your brain tells you this is a photo of a crowd at a large concert. pic.twitter.com/SzegeRTAZt
— Sonny Malho-ho-ho-tra (@PhotoSonny) November 3, 2017
It turns out you’re not the only one who thought that.
It even blew this guy’s mind, and he works with Derren Brown.
Mind blown! https://t.co/nOhdIQCM4V
— Andy Nyman (@andynyman) November 4, 2017
It prompted another discussion which, frankly, we’re struggling to get our heads round as well.
Ran the image through Google Cloud Vision API too and got the following results. I guess we have trained the machines wrongly too ! 😉 pic.twitter.com/eAfhOoHRvA
— Romin Irani (@iRomin) November 5, 2017
I guess the saving grace (if any) is that the machine is actually making the same mistake as the human (I thought concert on quick scan too)
— Nitya Narasimhan (@nitya) November 5, 2017
Agree.. I wonder what the strategy is for this? What fools us fools the machines too? Is that a correct statement?
— Romin Irani (@iRomin) November 5, 2017
Not every human was fooled though.
Just showed this to my wife and she says, “Why are you showing me a picture of a field and combine harvesters?” !!!!
— Mike Crook (@mykey987) November 4, 2017
They’re playing “ Cotton-eyed Joe”
— Henrik Jonsson (@IonSwitz) November 4, 2017