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Yes, it's easy to trick human drivers with visual illusions and even cause a collision [1]. One example is the "invisible rope prank" where two people pretend t
by kens 6y ago
Yes, it's easy to trick human drivers with visual illusions and even cause a collision [1]. One example is the "invisible rope prank" where two people pretend to stretch a rope across a street, causing drivers to stop. I don't understand why it's a big deal that a machine learning system can be tricked by adversarial data but nobody cares that human drivers can also trivially be tricked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pAcIjqcuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pAcIjqcuY
[1] The collision in this video is a bumper tap, nothing dramatic.
- watercooler_guy 6y agoThe concern with machine learning systems seems to be that they are fooled by silly things that a human wouldn't be fooled by in the same situations. Probably just an emotional/sense of normalcy thing, but easy-to-create visual designs being enough to cause a fatal car crash is disturbing when a human behind the driver's seat would not fall victim to that. That's not a "reasonable" mistake, but expecting there to be a thin wire stretched across the road when there are several people acting like there is, is more "reasonable." There might also be the expectation that for problems easily solved by a human, any competent AI should be able to do "at least" those things.