🥭 → 🤖 “BANANA! 97%” → ❌
🎒 What you need
- your trained model from module 4, still open on the phone
- the same objects
- a dark corner, and a bright doorway
✋ Do this
- Show it a mango in the same light as before. It gets it right. Fine.
- Now walk to a shaded corner and show the same mango. Watch the numbers wobble.
- Show it a mango on a different cloth or a different floor. Note what happens.
- Show it something you never trained — a shoe, a cup, a goat if one wanders past. It will still pick a box, loudly.
- Write down every way you managed to break it. Three ways is good. Five is excellent.
- Now retrain, this time taking photos in shade AND sun AND on two backgrounds. Test again. Better?
💡 Why it works
The machine only knows the world you showed it. If every training photo was taken at noon on a blue cloth, then shade is a foreign country. This is why an app trained only on tidy photos from one place can fail badly on a real farm in harmattan dust — and why the people who build good ones go and collect messy photos on purpose.
🔥 Challenge
Be the tester, not the builder. Take a friend's model and break it in four ways in under three minutes. Then help them fix it.
📖 New words
confidencehow sure the machine says it is — which can be high and still wrong
training dataall the examples the machine learned from
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Bug Catcher
Tap when you have finished this module.