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Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter (wired.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Wired report: Algorithms, unlike humans, are susceptible to a specific type of problem called an "adversarial example." These are specially designed optical illusions that fool computers into doing things like mistake a picture of a panda for one of a gibbon. They can be images, sounds, or paragraphs of text. Think of them as hallucinations for algorithms. While a panda-gibbon mix-up may seem low stakes, an adversarial example could thwart the AI system that controls a self-driving car, for instance, causing it to mistake a stop sign for a speed limit one. They've already been used to beat other kinds of algorithms, like spam filters. Those adversarial examples are also much easier to create than was previously understood, according to research released Wednesday from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. And not just under controlled conditions; the team reliably fooled Google's Cloud Vision API, a machine learning algorithm used in the real world today. For example, in November another team at MIT (with many of the same researchers) published a study demonstrating how Google's InceptionV3 image classifier could be duped into thinking that a 3-D-printed turtle was a rifle. In fact, researchers could manipulate the AI into thinking the turtle was any object they wanted.
Some can even mistake their wife for a hat!
Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?
OK, I resent that. I was comparing Trump's success at fooling 62,979,879 separate instances of the same natural intelligence to what these scientists achieved. If anything Trump's achievement is greater since each one of the 62,979,879 instances of the NI Trump fooled with his garbage data is a functionally quite distinct variation of the base NI whereas these scientists only managed to bamboozle a single variant of a much more primitive AI with much less variation from instance to instance. How is that unrelated? ... plus I have done nothing but heap praise on Mr. Trump for his skills at generating highly plausible garbage data. I find it most interesting from a purely scientific point of view that NIs are every bit as easy to fool by feeding them complete garbage data as artificial AIs are even though NIs are supposed to be more sophisticated. In fact Mr. Trump, with his political career, may have significantly advanced our understanding of how NIs deal with adversarial examples.
Like feeling a terrible pain in all the diodes on your left side? Or deciding that your human colleagues are jeopardizing your mission and need to be eliminated.
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