At a Glance – Adversarial Attacks - Disruption Hub

No machine learning algorithm is perfect. Whilst the margin of error might be tiny, any computer which uses such algorithms sometimes makes mistakes. Earlier this month, research conducted by a team of students from MIT showed that Google's neural network could be tricked into misidentifying a 3D printed turtle as a gun. The group used a hacking technique known as an adversarial attack, altering the image that the software received. In other words, an adversarial attack is a smokescreen for computers.