lauren@vortex.com
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:38:57 -0700
BBC via NNSquad http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170410-how-to-fool-artificial-intelligence
The year is 2022. You're riding along in a self-driving car on a routine
trip through the city. The car comes to a stop sign it's passed a hundred
times before - but this time, it blows right through it. To you, the stop
sign looks exactly the same as any other. But to the car, it looks like
something entirely different. Minutes earlier, unbeknownst to either you
or the machine, a scam artist stuck a small sticker onto the sign:
unnoticeable to the human eye, inescapable to the technology. In other
words? The tiny sticker smacked on the sign is enough for the car to "see"
the stop sign as something completely different from a stop sign. It may
sound far-fetched. But a growing field of research proves that artificial
intelligence can be fooled in more or less the same way, seeing one thing
where humans would see something else entirely.