Researchers demonstrate that Google's cloud video AI is easily duped

It's not yet possible for an artificial intelligence to properly classify videos based only on their content, and so we need to keep using our own brains. While artificial intelligence is an incredibly important field that's growing by leaps and bounds, perhaps its most interesting lessons concerns just how incredible the human brain is at performing certain functions. While computers might be better at performing math and looking dozens of chess moves into the future, they can't yet compete with the human brain at figuring out things like a video's topic. A recent research project demonstrated just that fact by feeding videos to Google's Cloud Video Intelligence API and seeing if it could determine exactly what a given video was about. Apparently, this seemingly simple task is a challenge for Google's AI and points out the difficulty of creating automatic systems to categorize video, as Motherboard reports. The research team in question works at the University of Washington, and the team used some trickery to see how smart the Google API really is.