Sunday surprise, from dogs & muffins to Stop! & 45mph limit
[ by Charles Cameron — better eat a muffin than a dog, stop at a stop sign than blow through it at 45, oh well ]
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It’s cute, sorta, that AIs can’t easily distinguish dogs from muffins:
But STOP!
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What’s not so funny is that the AI in many autonomous vehicles misreads a treated STOP sign —
— as a sign for a 45 mph speed limit. As Ivan Evtimov and colleagues indicate in Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models, “Physically realizing such an attack for road signs can raise concern in human observers.”
I’ll say.
Grab the wheel, conscious entity!
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Readings:
Becoming Human: AI, Why are Marketers All Talking about AI Now? Wired, Simple Pictures that State-of-the-Art AI Still Can’t Recognize Car & Driver, Researchers Find a Malicious Way to Meddle with Autonomous Cars Arxiv, Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models
