To human eyes, this is obviously a dog in the snow Meike Engels/Alamy
Tricking artificial intelligence has never been easier. One way is to fool an AI into misclassifying an image by misinforming it about what that file shows. Such “adversarial examples” can now be generated a thousand times faster than before.
Anish Athalye at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have created an algorithm that produces a thousand adversarial examples to fool Google’s image recognition system – Google Cloud Vision. One was an image of a dog that was wrongly identified as a picture of two…
