This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task

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Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal.” Clever girl!

But in fact this occurrence, far from illustrating some kind of malign intelligence inherent to AI, simply reveals a problem with computers that has existed since they were invented: they do exactly what you tell them to do.

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20 amazing maps that will change the way you see the world

1. Texas over Alaska – Texas vs. Alaska: Score settled.

Zak Erving considers himself a renegade cartographer.  His  journals and sketchbooks are filled with scribbled street maps of various cities around the world, indicating monuments, museums, and rarely hostels. To someone on the outside, they might look more cryptic than helpful, but he prides himself on being able to find his way around a new city using only three or four at most.

 

 

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Cartography!: The Map Of Social Networking

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This is the 2010 Social Networking Map. From a quick glance I imagine most of you reside in the lower left portion, somewhere in The Sea of Desperation between the land of Youporn and The Island of Trolls. But who knows, maybe you spent your last $30 on a raft and set sail for a better life…

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