Our planet c Microsoft Flight Simulator gathering with AI. Some incidents arise due to computers’ imperfection: for example, sometimes buildings remain a flat texture on Earth. Others arise due to the fact that the AI fed the incorrect data, and the naive digital mind did not suspect a trick.
Melbourne – the second largest city in Australia, where there are low -rise sleeping areas. But in Microsoft Flight Simulator In one of these areas there was a giant skyscraper. A building with a height of more than 200 floors looks so unusual in the middle of tiny private houses that he was immediately called the “Melbourne Citadel”-in the manner of the citadel to City-17 from Half-Life 2.
The unusual building attracted the attention of the community: one of the players named Conor O’Kain (Conor o’Kane) managed to put an airplane on him! He recorded the process on the video, because he considered that the building would soon be swayed and removed from Microsoft Flight Simulator. The task was not given for a long time: too small a landing site. But O’Kain I tried different aircraft and after 38 attempts he managed to land on a citadel on a “bird” of a smallest and slower (and then even managed to fly back!).
Users became interested: why Microsoft Flight Euromaniacasino.co.uk Simulator so crazy that she designated a potential point for the monastery of our foreign patrons? After a small investigation, the following became clear:
Microsoft Flight Simulator builds the ground using bing cards from Microsoft. And Bing cards, in turn, rely on OpenStreetMap – an open project, where everyone can fill out cartographic data.
On August 10, 2019, a certain Nathanwright120 filled out data on OpenStreetmap and in one of the houses in Melbourne indicated a monstrous height-212 floors! Specially or by mistake, it is not clear.
The indicators were corrected on May 17, 2020, marked “obviously too many in the height of the building”. In reality, the structure has only two floors.
But for Microsoft Flight Simulator It turned out too late: 212 floors were already imported into the game, and the corrections did not have time to go there.
Here the ingenuous AI erected a hefty skyscraper in the middle of a quiet suburbs and covered it with appropriate materials so that it looked more likely. As users write, the height of the virtual structure is about 738 meters. If the Melbourne citadel existed in reality, it would be the second in height building in the world. In the first place-“Burdzh-Khalifa” in Dubai with an architectural height of 828 meters.
Developers Microsoft Flight Simulator It has not yet been reacted to the story with the citadel, so what will happen to it in the future is unknown.