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Re:Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software by captainmuon on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:27AM (#14989408)
You can use adversarial neural networks to make a special picture that looks like noise or junk, but a certain neural network will recognize e.g. a dog in it. You basically train the ANN to make something that the other NN classifies as dog, but humans don't.

I often wonder if you could do that with humans. I don't think you can crash a human brain a la Snow Crash or Basilisk, but I think it is plausible to craft an abstract picture that creates fear, arousal, or some other "primitive" response.

Re:Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software by digikata on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:33PM (#14994502)
> but I think it is plausible to craft an abstract picture that creates fear, arousal, or some other "primitive" response.

Visit a modern art museum - I think one can find many examples.