These were basically dogs strapped with bombs which were trained to run towards enemy tanks, where a contact detonator would cause the bomb to explode, killing the dog and hopefully causing damage to the enemy tank.
The analogy comes from stories about why the dogs failed in their main purpose - one story says that the dogs were trained on friendly tanks, not enemy tanks, so on the battlefield turned around and ran towards friendly tanks instead of the intended targets.
One could imagine this story was retold, and eventually re-interpreted as being as a result of an artificial neural network, rather than a biological one :-)
These were basically dogs strapped with bombs which were trained to run towards enemy tanks, where a contact detonator would cause the bomb to explode, killing the dog and hopefully causing damage to the enemy tank.
The analogy comes from stories about why the dogs failed in their main purpose - one story says that the dogs were trained on friendly tanks, not enemy tanks, so on the battlefield turned around and ran towards friendly tanks instead of the intended targets.
One could imagine this story was retold, and eventually re-interpreted as being as a result of an artificial neural network, rather than a biological one :-)