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From Wired: “Tech companies are rushing to infuse everything with artificial intelligence, driven by big leaps in the power of machine learning software. But the deep-neuralnetwork software fueling the excitement has a troubling weakness: Making subtle changes to images, text or audio can fool these systems into perceiving things that aren’t there. That could be a big problem for products dependent on machine learning, particularly for vision, such as self-driving cars. Leading researchers are trying to develop defenses against such attacks — but that’s ... a challenge.”