Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016)
It seems that if you use Microsoft Azure for image recognition you would come to the conclusion that there are giraffe's everywhere: <a href="http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep" rel="nofollow">http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-drea...</a><p>Maybe it's because Microsoft worked on a project to help conservationists protect giraffes: <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/04/11/how-microsoft-is-helping-conservationists-protect-the-masai-giraffe/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/04/...</a><p>This might be an example of how a specialized  dataset that was used to train an AI for a specific task, was later taken as part of another dataset to train a more general AI and the result was an AI with a "distorted view" of the world.