A pot of paint is a very cheap way of giving you some protection, and if it gives you a 1% less chance of being spotted or targeted then that's an extremely good investment. There's a famous example of one team that developed a printed 3D plastic turtle, which machine vision actually thought looked like a rifle. If you can do that kind of thing, you should be able to fool machine vision systems, whether they're on satellite watches or on drones or other vehicles around the place quite easily.
After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predictions that Vox, a far-right party, might enter government failed to materialise. Russia’s navy is repainting its vessels in a bid to frustrate munitions powered by artificial intelligence (10:03). And why the push to invent outlandish ice-cream flavours such as ketchup is deeply misguided (17:59).
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