The US is making digital camouflage so that AIs can’t spot spy planes

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By David Hambling

Digital veil could maybe compose tanks compare devour cows or turn plane into clouds – however finest if the observer is a computer.

Artificially vivid programs that recognise objects automatically salvage an Achilles heel. Unbiased a shrimp of tweaked photos, called adversarial examples, can fool them into misidentifying an object in ways absurd to other folks. These adversarial examples consist of a plastic turtle which AIs mistake for a rifle and spectacle frames which baffle facial recognition software into misidentifying the wearer as yet any other particular person.

Now the US Navy’s Place of job of …