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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.
No, vandalism should have the same punishment as it have today - cars have to be able to drive as good as human drivers and so the dangers should be the same anyway. If the cars are stupid they shouldn't drive themselves period.
The rest is just brain damage level reasoning mixed with prejudices.
Some can even mistake their wife for a hat!
Which actually raises an interesting question: Can advanced AI systems develop rare and bizarre neurological disorders as those described by Dr. Oliver Sachs . . . ?
That's something we might want to think about avoiding if it is a military AI system . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Humans are susceptible to optical illusions too, and optical illusions have caused driving accidents. Not to mention other human failings.
All of these vision AIs are programmed backwards -- for convenience. This random object looks "more like" a speed limit sign and "less like" a stop sign. Great. No body cares about how much "like" something another something appears.
You can ask any 10-year old. A stop sign is a red octagon. Any 16-year old will say it also has a white border, and white lettering in the middle. Any experienced driver will add that it appears at some sort of intersection, obstruction, or event, alongside a narrow road.
Now, if you see a red octagon, and you stop, and it turns out to be a giant lollipop, then that's good. Because a giant lollipop on the road is absolutely acting as a stop sign.
If something isn't a red octagon, then it's definitely not a stop sign.
The problem here is that google's vision AI doesn't identify an sight according to what defines a stop sign -- a red octagon on the side of the road. That's because it's highly stupid.
And the question really comes down to something much simpler. If I put a big square sign on the side of the road, blue, with yellow lettering, that says "please pause, thank you", will google treat it as a stop sign? Good bet that any driver who sees it (and can certainly be forgiven for not noticing it) will stop.
Conversely, on a highway, at 120kph, if I put a real stop sign on the side of the road, will google treat it as a stop sign? No human driver is going to slam on the brakes.
Google's not thinking. Therefore, it ain't an AI. It surely "looks like" an AI, but it's not an AI. It uses collected intelligence to determine what the object is, but it doesn't use its own intelligence to make decisions. It doesn't make decisions at all.
Show me a vision system that can take any photograph of any road, and decide whether or not it should stop the car. Doesn't need to be right or wrong, correct or incorrect, it just needs to make a decision, reliably, that makes sense. See, if it can do that, "reliably", then we can change the signs for them. We chose the signs for us for a reason. Humans see red first, so stop signs are red. If machines have trouble with octagons, and love purple, then we can give them that instead. Dual signage is common in multi-lingual communities.
But these shitty AI systems are much worse. They don't even make their classifications reliably -- because the more data they collect, the most they distract themselves. So a guaranteed "this is a stop sign, 100%" can change a year later, as it "learns", such that the very same stop sign is now only 80%. There's no fortification. There's no stubbornness. That's a problem.
Doesn't matter what color I am, I don't use illegal drugs, because it's not worth the risk. Considering the risk is higher if I am black, it would make more sense for me to be black that white.
Selfish? Because I don't put myself in danger of being arrested? Because my mother doesn't worry that she'll have to spend her rent money to bail me out of jail? Because I think differently than you? Yeah, whatever.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
You make several valid points. The biggest rebuttal about them is that the countries you mention are mostly homogenous populations, without the racial history that defined the US. The biggest problem (imho) today is that the US has a large population that is being told every day that they have to "stick it to the man". Modern black culture in America is its own worst problem, and many who try to escape it are punished by that same culture for "being white".
Poor immigrants come in from Asia every year. We don't see the problems in the poor Asian communities that we see in the poor black communities. So it isn't simply a "non-white" problem. It is a cultural problem withing the modern day black community. Part of the blame can certainly be placed on racism, but that once "whites only" was outlawed, racism is more of a crutch than actual reason for someone being held back.
For many of the programs that worked in other areas, we have seen them attempted here in the US. They fail within a few years because
1. It was a political move, and ignored after the election
2. Only a dozen people were successfully helped, out of thousands/millions
3. Blacks actively attacked the blacks that participated
4. Clinics/offices in the neighborhoods served were vandalized or burglarized
5. Corruption, bribes, slush funds, rather than real aid
6. Too many people allow all of the above to happen
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
The biggest problem (imho) today is that the US has a large population that is being told every day that they have to "stick it to the man".
Yes, the right-wing anti-government militia is certainly a problem!
Does BET have a show called "Hold My Beer" that features your mythical creatures denigrating women and breaking laws? No? Nothing like the rap videos featuring crime and bad behavior?
Or, do your vast right wing militia call someone an "Uncle Sam" for wanting to leave the group to fit into the successful business culture in America? No again?
Do those militia depend on the government for their rent money, and cheat the system to get it?
I'm not sure what your definition of "stick it to the man" is, but you many want to rethink it.
Too bad you forced the FBI to stop reporting on them, because you wanted them to spend billions building a worthless border wall after shutting down their attempt to track down the routes firearms followed in illegal cross-border smuggling.
The FBI has time and money for one investigation at a time? The FBI is building a wall? The FBI can't figure out where the guns Obama sold the drug cartels are because they didn't bother tracking the guns? Well, that part is true at least.
Modern black culture in America is its own worst problem, and many who try to escape it are punished by that same culture for "being white".
That's right, they must be the problem in themselves, that way you don't have to be responsible for doing anything!
How convenient for you. Just wave your hands and scream about their "culture" while closing your eyes.
What do you think I can do, personally, for the blacks living in Chicago's south side? Send them money, set up a GoFundMe page? Take away their guns so they stop killing each other?
It isn't white people killing blacks on the streets every weekend.
Part of the blame can certainly be placed on racism, but that once "whites only" was outlawed, racism is more of a crutch than actual reason for someone being held back.
Wow, you believe once segregation was found to be unlawful, all problems related to it magically disappeared?
Not in the same instant, but at some point in the last fifty fucking years government-endorsed racism stopped being the reason blacks were being held back.
What silliness you believe. Besides, it is still practiced. Don't believe me? Go see how many school systems are still segregated.
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Schools are segregated because no white person wants to live in neighborhoods where they'll be robbed or killed just for being white. They are not segregated because the poor little black kids aren't allowed in the 'whites only' school.
And, again, the blacks who make the effort to rise out of those high crime neighborhoods, and attend good schools, public or private, are then called Uncle Toms for forgetting their roots. The ones keeping segregation alive aren't white.
For many of the programs that worked in other areas, we have seen them attempted here in the US. They fail within a few years because
You forgot the number one reason: There's a political party that doesn't want them to work,
Finally, you are blaming the Democrats. What a relief.
Or do you really think Republicans want to pay even more welfare to blacks? No, they want them to work. Haven't you ever heard the horrible phrase, "Get a job"?
that wants to deny the effectiveness,
The failure of the programs proves their ineffectiveness. That's my point. The reasons for that failure are listed.
or even the desirability, because that getting in the way of their condemning that very same black cultur
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.