Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

“AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test”

It's "Skynet" from The Terminator. We're doomed. If the military decides AI is the solution to our defense, we're doomed. AI will see all humans as a threat to be eliminated.
 
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“AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test”

It's "Skynet" from The Terminator. We're doomed. If the military decides AI is the solution to our defense, we're doomed. AI will see all humans as a threat to be eliminated.
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"Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer for the (ab-)use of a family of computerized pattern recognition methods."see MoA @ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/...gence-is-mostly-pattern-recognition.html#more The cat is well-informed.

In my view "AI=AS" when I=intelligent and S=stupid. The principle being that relying on a gizmo somebody built to get you to believe in...to let that decide your fate is totally phucking stupid, but that's just one opinion.

Best!
 
Correction, Re: “The AI Drone that went rogue and killed its operator” story has been walked back by the person who originally made the statement. He now says it never happened.

The Royal Aeronautical Society responded in a statement on Friday that Hamilton had retracted his comments and had clarified that the “rogue AI drone simulation” was a hypothetical “thought experiment”.


“We’ve never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realise that this is a plausible outcome,” Hamilton said.

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Correction, Re: “The AI Drone that went rogue and killed its operator” story has been walked back by the person who originally made the statement. He now says it never happened.

The Royal Aeronautical Society responded in a statement on Friday that Hamilton had retracted his comments and had clarified that the “rogue AI drone simulation” was a hypothetical “thought experiment”.


“We’ve never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realise that this is a plausible outcome,” Hamilton said.

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"Never believe anything from the government until it's been denied" (I. Stone)
 
They say that human radiologists cannot distinguish from X Rays between Races of Man.
They also say that AI can tell which X rays belong to which Race. Very accurately .
If this is so, then the people who insist that there is no difference between Races ought to be afraid of AI. And probably everybody else ought to be afraid too. Me? I have my old preference toward leggy blonds, and I'm gunna keep it. Chatted one up today, she said I reminded her of her dad! Oh! The shame!...
FWIW imho everybody brings his gifts to the pow-wow, and we all need to get along...but AI might decide that we ought to fight, eh? I mean it's a time-tested game, divide to rule and all of that stuff. and why wouldn't Master AI decide to rule by division?
 
Well, that frenzy ticked up a notch when Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk had a fireside chat about the future of AI. Musk says that as AI develops there will come a time - not far off in his no doubt erudite opinion - when AI will be able to do all jobs and there will be no need for any of us to have a job. He conceded that some people may want to have a job for their own personal satisfaction. A big job for AI will be to provide companionship for people. 'Imagine having a friend who understands you, knows your motivations better than you do, remembers everything about you and everything you have said in the past?

Yeah, wonderful.

Sunak asked whether Musk foresees everybody just being given a basic income in that AI economy. No, says Musk, everybody will have a high income.

Ahem, I don't really think so. I suspect that in the scenario he believes will be reality soon, it will be the tech billionaires who invent and control the AI systems who will have a high income.

Musk thinks a major problem in this wonderful future - one which our AI best friends might have to help us with - is finding any meaning or purpose in life.

We think it's ironic that a computer asks us to prove we're not a robot? Might be just a tad more ironic if we need an AI friend to point out to us the value of our human existence.
 
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Room in the tent for a big brother and "commerce" tracking rant?
Went to Amazoom, bought my second pair of electric socks. With socks buried under layers of cold weather clothes, a phone based temp control seems like a winner. Well they work great. But the control wouldn't link with the socks would see them but no joy. Finally turned the phone GPS feature on. Bingo the control works. App also requires you to register/sign in each time you activate the control. Grr; convenience=giving away any pretense of privacy. Exactly what Chinese database gets the data and what they do with it is of course a mystery.
Debating on returning them cuz....
Rant off, the socks were nice on my ride yesterday and I've found the first pair (2 years old, still working) great for getting out n about in winter.
 
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considering that real people with real power believe in a fiddled algorithm as gospel, it may be that "AI" = "AS" as in artificial stupidity. What happens when there's a rock from space? O' from Global-south, ahem...
But 'way off topic...sherkool Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez charter ist restored, sorta... ahmahselpf kinna like the ol'd direct reversing diesel...https://www.westernflyer.org/western-flyers-hybrid-system/ Richcat and his pretty toy... gearhead candy... me too! But I'd prefer the ol' blast injection direct reversing attended engine room,....
 
Not read through ..but remember a story That might upset you gentlemen in the land of the free and brave.

When GPS was installed in Cars there was a possibility to monitor cars on the road .And with some programming and perhaps some electronics in the cars it would be possible to calculate the speed on a known road .. And compare it with the speed limit PLONG Automatic fine in the mail ..

The days with the Officer out behind the bush measuring speed would be over.

Svensson would come home from work finding a mail that his drivers license had been revoked

As I recall there actually was a meeting at the Car Company VOLVO .. But they realised that when we install that in our Expensive Cars
We have sold our last Automobile Many jobs at stake . And profits gone So it did not happen.
But What If they do it secretly. ? And on that information ..put you under surveillance and get you out on the road.
Motorcycling Impossible ?
 
Your cell phone has GPS whether you activate it or not, so "they" know where you are and what you're doing all the time. Also, all your devices "talk" to each other. If you are surfing the net and find something you'd like to buy, the next time you're playing your favorite game you'll see a pop-up ad for that very item. I don't have that problem as much anymore since I started wearing tin foil hats. My wife thinks I'm weird... :shrug:
 
I don't have a mobile phone. Which sounds like a confession these days.

I suppose they can 'track' me by my credit card usage. Except that might be another area where bossy technology limits my options - increasingly, when I use a credit card, Bank of Scotland likes to call me to verify that it really is me using my card and entering my secret PIN code. And of course, they can only call me on a landline (go and ask your Grandad if you don't know what a landline is) so the days of using my credit card out and about might come to an end. At that point, I'll just have to opt out of the economy . . .
 
Well, they can and do track in the US by means to automatic plate reader link-ups. GPS isn't essential, and they can located phone roughly, maybe 20 meter, without gps, simply by towers and algo. There is plenty of evidence for this revealed in cop radio traffic, if you are near major highway points...they seem to favor out of state plates..and like to do "voluntary search", which is follow'd by "warning on lighting", or by an arrest sometimes. I eschew electronic on car and scooter, and keep the old flip-burnphone in condition "off" , and wrapped in wrinkled aluminum foil (better scatter an' all). The plate tracking does not seem to work well with bikes...angle of plate may matter. Adjacent IR lamps also may matter (hint).. And I pay cash, hoodie, shades, and so on... Not that I mind being tracked (hi fellas and gals and, "other"!)... It's an old fella game. Longtimeago (50 years!) by the river at midnight I heard a story from a stranger...lived as a kid in Florida, and lived by unlicensed organic chemistry sales... fed put radio tracker in the nice drums of reagents...kid took the load out into the swamp with the cops tailing...ditches with gaters both sides, kid did the Immelmann gag - spun around, floored it and headed straight at the cops. A matter of perceived value...for cops it was a job, for dealer it was life. I think it's a true story. The point being that tracking works in both directions, it opens possibilities for fun and games, mutual deceptions, and the fellas get paid, for cops it's rice bowl. Let's recall Jake and Ellwood and the guys...1066 West Addison (Wrigley Field) and SCMODS... the old days.
 
I was just on the interweb trying to figure out how convert my old stereo from wired speakers to wireless
I always check the reviews to see how the product is working for others
When I came across this on an Amazon website review page

Customers say​

Customers like the value, sound quality, connectivity, and quality of the wireless audio adapter. They mention that it's well worth the price, the pairing works well, and the device is sleek with a good build.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews

Well then, if AI technology says it's good enough I won't bother reading the other 1,782 global ratings
Sure makes life a whole lot easier

Gosh if this would have been around just before I got married I wouldn't have had to listen to all my friends and family give me their opinion on whether or not to marry my bride or not, or to even get married at all I'd have just have checked her ratings (Maybe I would have needed Facebook for that?)
As a side note: when my best friend and myself went to the county courthouse to get the marriage license (application?)
We had stopped at a local bar for a few beers first
When it was my turn with the lady clerk she said "can I help you" and I replied " I'd like a combination small game and wedding license please "
And she replied with a scowl "most people take that seriously sir "
We've been married for over 36 years now so I think I got us off to a good start even before the I do's
 
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