I think when we say that an adversarial attack is “dumb” or “stupid” what we are really implying is that the hack itself is really clever but it is exploiting a feature that is dumb or stupid. There are probably a lot of unknown-to-us features of the human brain that have been hacked together by evolution in some dumb, kludgy way that AI will be able to take advantage of, so your example above is actually an example of the AI being brilliant but us humans being dumb. But I get what you are saying that that whole situation would indeed seem “dumb” if AI was able to hack us like that.
This reminds me of a lecture 8-Bit Guy did on phone phreaking in the 1980s. “How Telephone Phreaking Worked.” Some of those tricks do indeed seem “dumb,” but it’s dumb more in the sense that the telephone network was designed without sufficient forethought to be susceptible to someone playing a blue whistle that you could get from a Captain Crunch cereal box that just happened to play the correct 2600 hz frequency to trick phones into registering a call as a toll-free 1-800 call. The hack itself was clever, but the design it was preying upon and the overall situation was kinda dumb.
I think when we say that an adversarial attack is “dumb” or “stupid” what we are really implying is that the hack itself is really clever but it is exploiting a feature that is dumb or stupid. There are probably a lot of unknown-to-us features of the human brain that have been hacked together by evolution in some dumb, kludgy way that AI will be able to take advantage of, so your example above is actually an example of the AI being brilliant but us humans being dumb. But I get what you are saying that that whole situation would indeed seem “dumb” if AI was able to hack us like that.
This reminds me of a lecture 8-Bit Guy did on phone phreaking in the 1980s. “How Telephone Phreaking Worked.” Some of those tricks do indeed seem “dumb,” but it’s dumb more in the sense that the telephone network was designed without sufficient forethought to be susceptible to someone playing a blue whistle that you could get from a Captain Crunch cereal box that just happened to play the correct 2600 hz frequency to trick phones into registering a call as a toll-free 1-800 call. The hack itself was clever, but the design it was preying upon and the overall situation was kinda dumb.