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https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/02/07/mit-researchers-developed-a-text-based-system-that-tricks-googles-ai/

... researchers at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT, have developed a new system called TextFooler that can trick AI models that use natural language processing (NLP) — like the ones used by Siri and Alexa. This is important to catch spam or respond to offensive language.

Some days it seems like many of the actors on the internet are at best irresponsible and at worst criminal, and frankly, it's infuriating. However, I think about a world that didn't have all these irritants and how vulnerable it would be. Thanks to their continuing attempts to ruin it for everyone else, the internet and the good actors on it have to toughen up and defend themselves. In a perfect world that would be a waste of resources but it's not a perfect world and ultimately it makes us stronger.

I still think the little buggers should be thrown in jail for the rest of their miserable lives though.

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"Google’s BERT is applied to the company’s search and many other products. And we often see that changing a few words in search can change results drastically. "

Nice
https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/google-brings-in-bert-to-improve-its-search-results/

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Not to stir away from this thread's topic but I think ivan wanted this one, it's 2019. Google uses all those brain-derived keys I always mention for their engine; rank, freshness, frequency, context etc: