You guys are reading too much sci-fi
The author of this article also lacks computer programming knowledge.
There is even a name for this - I think it is called a ‘competency bias’ - where you tend to read something and assume the author knows what he is talking about, unless you read something in your area of expertise and think “this author has no clue what he is talking abut”
I program computers FOR A LIVING (for 30 years now) and the ONLY thing this author got right is that computers do exactly what you tell them to do.
In this case the computer was not doing anything ‘secretly’ - it is a bug in the software somewhere that told it to do this.
Fix the bug and the problem goes away.
Correct. The difficulty of detecting the effect was a consequence of the minimization the algorithm was told to do.
it is a bug in the software
Incorrect. The algorithm was minimizing exactly what it was told to minimize - just not in a way its users intended or expected.
It’s not a ‘bug’, it’s a FUTURE!..................
I think it is called a ‘competency bias’ - where you tend to read something and assume the author knows what he is talking about
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What is it called when I tend to assume no author knows what he is talking about (unless it’s the Bible).
Exactly. We are supposed to believe...
1.Computer assigned task with end goal of reverse-creating the original image after all the detail is removed.
2. Computer finds task too hard and devises secret way to cheat by encoding high frequency data via steganography.
3. Cheating computer is caught.
4. Cheating computer explains: “But’s I tried so hard! Besides, every other computer was cheating, too.”