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Vision AI is just as stupid as real people. This isn’t a crowd of people at a concert

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It’s always funny the things we see in images that aren’t really there. Like probably most of you who saw this come up as a preview on social media, I thought this was a crowd at a concert on first glance. But no, it’s not, it’s a field of cotton about to be mowed down by machines at night.

Don’t feel too bad, though. It turns out that Google’s Vision AI also thought it was a rock concert, too.

The image was originally posted a week ago to the Instagram feed of photographer Micah Horn. He’s the one who created it, although it hasn’t seen a massive amount of love over on Instagram.

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No it’s not a concert, but it is a heck of a show!! I will say, you do get your exercise when you take harvest photos!! As soon as that basket is full you jump off (without falling off I might add) before the boll buggy pulls up and hit a quick trot 50-100 feet out, crouch to get just the right angle with just the right light and pray that you’re holding the camera steady enough to actually get a clean image. And, when the transfer of cotton from stripper to boll buggy is complete, it’s a game of jumping back in the cotton stripper while in motion. I think the crew was waiting for me slip up but luckily, well, I’m a pro at this game…(jk I fell like twice) #vivallanoestacado #igtexas #harvest2017 #agrowlife

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It was spotted and reposted to Twitter, by PhotoSonny, and it’s been messing with peoples heads every since.

Even those who are experts at mind manipulation were impressed. Andy Nyman works with the amazing Derren Brown.

And, yes, even Google Cloud Vision API got confused. So, either the machines are stupid, or the people training them are.

Not everybody was fooled, though. This gentleman’s wife certainly wasn’t.

Although plenty were.

Funny thing is, once you know what it really is, you can’t see that crowd again. No matter how hard you try.

Did you spot what it really was straight away? Or was there a moment where you thought it was a crowd at a concert?

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  • A field of plants at night.

  • no, my brain did not tell me it is a concert.. some brains may have told that because of the title. sorry.

  • AI as stupid as people
    Sounds like a praise to AI developers, or? ^^

  • Absolutely

  • Harvesters harvesting cotton, right ?

  • It tricked me for a second because someone wrote concert in picture title on another post so yes it can trick someone if he don’t pay attention and just scroll quickly. But as soon as i looked over second on picture i realized what it is.

  • Renato Murakami

    I blame social media and all friends and relatives going to awesome concerts I can’t afford to go.
    In a sense though, there’s a catchy description for an upcoming rock concert… we’re gonna mow you down like huge harversters down a cotton field at night!

  • Cotton pickers – we live next to quite a few cotton fields being picked now.

  • Anthony Kerstens

    All those concert goers seem to have more hair than I do!!!

  • Ralph Hightower

    Deere. John Deere.

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