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A 3D-printed turtle can fool AI into seeing a rifle

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Behold the pinnacle of object recognition, where a reptile becomes a weapon of mass destruction. By slightly modifying the visual texture of an object in a way entirely invisible to the human eye—known as an adversarial attack—researchers can completely break image classification software, forcing highly advanced neural networks to look at a 3D-printed turtle and confidently identify it as a high-powered firearm.

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