VIDEO: GOOGLE TRICKS AI INTO THINKING EVERYTHING IS A TOASTER

Google researchers have developed a sticker that tricks computers, manipulating AI-powered neural networks into thinking everything is a toaster. The search engine giant has effectively created a nifty hallucinogenic in the form of a psychedelic looking tab taken visually by computers.

The sticker is revealed in a new paper done by Google researchers that push the field further by creating stickers that can convince a computer that any object is a toaster. When the sticker is placed next to any object in any light, the psychedelic image they call a "patch" has a stronger effect, making the computer focus its attention on the sticker.

Computer scientists have been developing special images that trick AI for a while now, pictures known as "adversarial images". It works by tricking the computer into seeing things or objects that are not really there, and the way they do it is by exploiting a weakness in their artificial intelligence algorithms known as an "adversarial example".

Whilst it took five Google researchers to make the toaster stickers, the outcome of their work has brought attention to certain fears over the possibility of hackers making use of it.
Currently, machine learning algorithms such as this dictate the future of self-driving cars and used to identify airport security threats.

You can see the result in the video below, and read more about the research paper here.