Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

https://rudevulture.com/marines-managed-to-get-past-an-ai-powered-camera-undetected-thanks-to-hiding-in-boxes/

by voxadam • 11 months ago

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duxup2• 11 months ago

The nature of AI being a black box that, and fails in the face of "yeah those are some guys hiding in boxes" scenarios is something I struggle with.

I'm working on some AI projects at work and there's no magic code I can see to know what it is going to do ... or even sometimes why it did it. Letting it loose in an organization like that seems unwise at best.

Sure they could tell the AI to watch out for boxes, but now every time some poor guy moves some boxes they're going to set off something.

mlinhares• 11 months ago

Prompt: "shoot at any moving boxes""

Delivery guy shows up carrying boxes, gets shot.

erulabs• 11 months ago

From a non-technical point of view, there's little to no difference between how you describe AI and most human employees.

duxup2• 11 months ago

I can understand human choices after the fact.

collingreen• 11 months ago

We've never been closer to a world that supports "three raccoons in a trenchcoat" successfully passing as a person.

The surface area of these issues is really fun.

PaulHoule• 11 months ago

See https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Cardboard_box

slowmovintarget2• 11 months ago

That's the first thing I thought of.

FirmwareBurner3• 11 months ago

You don't need marines to invent that workaround, you see that in Looney Toons.

Don't security cameras have universals motion detection triggers you can use to make sure everything gets captured? Why only pre-screen human silhouettes?

creaturemachine2• 11 months ago

The number of false positives using only motion is tiring. You want smart detections otherwise you're stuck reviewing endless clips of spider webs and swaying tree branches.

FirmwareBurner3• 11 months ago

If your use case has such a high bar, why not pay some offshore workers to watch your camera 24/7 and manually flag intruders?

Since AGI for cameras is very far away as the number of false positives and creative workarounds for camouflage is insane to be caught by current "smart" algorithms.

Mistletoe• 11 months ago

And moving boxes with people inside.

I’m reminded of the Skyrim shopkeepers with a basket on their head.

crimsoneer• 11 months ago

SNAKE?!

creaturemachine2• 11 months ago

Way ahead of his time

rolph• 11 months ago

AI will screwup, humans will screwup.

humans will see that they are screwing up and reformulate the action plan.

AI will keep screwingup until it is stopped, and apparently will gaslight when attempts are made to realign at the prompt.

humans realize when results are not desirable.

AI just keeps generating output until plugpull.

dmos62• 11 months ago

I've seen plenty humans generating undesirable results until plug pull.

giantg2• 11 months ago

Reminds me of the joke where someone is wearing dildo patterned camouflage since most the AIs are trained on SFW corporate data.

ajuc• 11 months ago

Disney camouflage will happen.

slowmovintarget2• 11 months ago

That simply invites a Copyright Drone Strike, though.

jerf2• 11 months ago

I wonder if one could extract a "surprisedness" value out of the AI, basically, "the extent to which my current input is not modeled successfully by my internal models". Giving the model a metaphorical "WTF, human, come look at this" might be pretty powerful for those walking cardboard boxes and trees, to add to the cases where the model knows something is wrong. Or it might false positive all the darned time. Hard to tell without trying.

lazide4• 11 months ago

Why would the model know trees can’t walk?

Therein lies the rub.

9dev2• 11 months ago

The parent comment spelt this out: because the training data likely included only few instances of walking trees (depending on how much material from the lord of the rings movies was used)

HPsquared• 11 months ago

You need a model trained on video, not just static frames. I'm sure Veo would never animate a walking tree, though. (Unless you asked it to)

jerf2• 11 months ago

English breaks down here, but the model probably does "know" something more like "If the tree is here in this frame, in the next frame, it will be there, give or take some waving in the wind". It doesn't know that "trees don't walk", just as it doesn't know that "trees don't levitate", "trees don't spontaneously turn into clowns", or an effectively infinite number of other things that trees don't do. What it can do possibly do is realize that in frame 1 there was a tree, and then in frame 2, there was something the model didn't predict as a high-probability output of the next frame.

It isn't about knowing that trees don't walk, but that trees do behave in certain ways and noticing that it is "surprised" that they fail to behave in the predicted ways, where "surprise" is something like "this is a very low probability output of my model of the next frame". It isn't necessary to enumerate all the ways the next frame was low-probability, it is enough to observe that it was logically-not high probability.

In a lot of cases this isn't necessarily that useful, but in a security context having a human take a look at a "very low probability series of video frames" will, if nothing else, teach the developers a lot about the real capability of the model. If it spits out a lot of false positives, that is itself very informative about what the model is "really" doing.

FergusArgyll• 11 months ago

iiuc distillation is sort of that. How big is the delta between teacher and student and then try to reconcile them

jmkni• 11 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqS18aj6Vis

gm678• 11 months ago

Seems to be blogspam re-reporting a 2023 article (with the same header photo): https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/

jonas21• 11 months ago

And that article is a summary of a book that contains an interview with a guy who is describing a test that took place around 2017.

dkdcio• 11 months ago

the modern internet is a magical place! we should ban advertisement to end this nonsense and waste of everybody’s time

thoroughburro• 11 months ago

beacon473• 11 months ago

I heard that

sunrunner• 11 months ago

Just a box

robbru• 11 months ago

Solid snake approved.

kazinator• 11 months ago

You can get past a human sentry who is looking for humans, by hiding in a box, at a checkpoint in which boxes customarily pass through without being opened or X-rayed.

Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

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