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title: "Timeline photos "In a paper shared last week on the preprint server…"
date: 2019-04-24
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "In a paper shared last week on the preprint server…

*April 24, 2019 · Facebook*

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\"In a paper shared last week on the preprint server arXiv, these students show how simple printed patterns can fool an AI system that's designed to recognize people in images.\
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If you print off one of the students' specially designed patches and hang it around your neck, from an AI's point of view, you may as well have slipped under an invisibility cloak.\
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As the researchers write: "We believe that, if we combine this technique with a sophisticated clothing simulation, we can design a T-shirt print that can make a person virtually invisible for automatic surveillance cameras." (They don't mention it, but this is, famously, an important plot device in the sci-fi novel Zero History by William Gibson.)\"\
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