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That seems to be the go to story for NNs. I remember hearing it back in grad school. Though now I'm wondering if it is just an urban legend.
Some cursory googling shows others wondering the same thing.
Any have an actual cite for this? Or if not an actual cite, at least you had heard a concrete cite for it once?
I believe that Marvin Minsky is the origin of the story. He tells it in the second half of the 3 minute video Embarrassing mistakes in perceptron research. This version of the story is not so simple as sunny/cloudy, but that the two rolls of film were developed differently, leaving to a uniform change in brightness.
The first half of the video is a similar story about distinguishing musical scores using the last note in the lower right corner. Somewhere,* quite recently, I heard people argue that this story was more credible because Minsky makes a definite claim of direct involvement and maybe the details are a little more concrete.
[How did I find this? The key was knowing the attribution to Minsky. It comes up immediately searching for "Minsky pictures of tanks." But "Minsky tank neural net" is a poor search because of the contributions of David Tank. Note that the title of the video contains the word "perceptron," suggesting that the story is from the 60s.]
* Now that I read Gwern's comment, it must have been his discussion on Reddit a month ago.
Added, a week later: I'm nervous that Minsky really is the origin. When I first wrote this, I thought I had seen him tell the story in two places.