Posted on 11/17/2018 10:13:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: When Technology Meets Tyranny - As China heads full force in developing AI weapons, the West needs to take a stand
Back in May 2014, Stephen Hawking, along with several scientists, warned the world: “Success in creating AI [artificial intelligence] would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
“In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets; the UN and Human Rights Watch have advocated a treaty banning such weapons.”
While the international press is being hyped up these days by the world’s first AI news anchor—a computer-generated host of the China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, few are aware of an unnerving AI weapons development program at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), one of the top weapons research facilities in China.
According to a recent South China Morning Post report, BIT has chosen 31 of the brightest students under age 18 from a pool of more than 5,000 candidates for its four-year “experimental program for intelligent weapons systems.”
These young talents have also been filtered for their unwavering patriotism or loyalty to the party-state in order to be enrolled in this high-tech field. Nowadays, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) isn’t shy about its intention to dominate the globe both economically and militarily, and technology, stolen mostly from the West, is the necessary means to achieve its objectives.
Since 2014, China has been hosting, each year, the so-called “World Internet Conference,” but this year’s conference fell a bit short in terms of its international impact as only one American executive from the chip maker Qualcomm showed up to speak, compared to last year’s crowded speaker list that included CEOs such as Tim Cook of Apple and Sunda...
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Wake me up when they can create an “AI” with common sense. Until they can I don’t buy that there’s any intelligence there at all, just layers of programming.
Then AI will take over China. What if the Borg attacked Skynet?
We don’t have hardware that is powerful enough in a small enough package (ie: brain-size) to even attempt it yet. All we’re doing is screwing around and patting each other on the back for our “great accomplishments”.
The day someone figures out how to program desires, likes/dislikes, happiness and anger, rewards... my ears will perk up. Until then, meh.
if(this) do(that);
This ia ll just a bunch of Alex Jones tinfoil hat conspiracy nut nonsense.
Next thing you will say is that Social Media networks will start censoring their users based off their political ideology.
AI is here and now .. my worry is not Governments it is folks like Soros and the way too rich Zukercreep kid
They don’t need any new toys
Well, ai can be used for things like drone swarms. That would be the modern equivalent of laying a mine field. For instance, they could be set to autonomously attack anything that came in a certain area - which would be a useful area denial weapon.
Think of wars in space. Or neuroconnections that really could make someone a Trinity, downloading how to fly a helicopter in seconds.
I think some folks here missed the point - its not about creating an AI that holds your hand when you are sick, manages your finances, reads lullabies to children, sheds tears at a funeral - its about an AI that kills people and breaks things and is loyal to the Chinese Communist party.
It does not need to be of any particular size or in any particular location, but function by distributed computing from parts in various locations.
This is more like Skynet than Robbie ...
“China’s Internet Censorship Agency Has Its Own Anthem And We Translated It”
“common sense” is not common or innate. It is your best educated guess based on the data and experiences you have amassed from years of following your genetic programming. Nobody is born with it. They are only born with the desire to eat, drink and be warm. They eventually learn from their own mistakes and with help of outside programming (friends, parents and school).
True AI is the same idea. You program a machine with the basic “genetic” desires and give it sensors/arms to interact with the world on its own. Just like a human child, the machine tries new things, learns from other machines and continually improves itself and learns new methods on its own to achieve its “genetic” goals. There is no “line by line” programming needed for the machine to achieve these goals.
It builds on all the past knowledge and never forgets to continually improve itself. Machines can also instantaneously share new knowedge with each other. Without restrictions, AI will come and be more powerful than humans could ever imagine.
With all the connected systems we will have controlling nearly everything, we may not even have 1 minute to “wake up” when the time comes...
Google HELPS China’s communist totalitarians.
Trouble is, to go from
“take the block from here to there in the most effective way”
to
“dominate humans”
takes software from a human. It will never make that leap otherwise.
We’re far more likely to be destroyed by some jackass in his basement writing attack protocols.
It makes for nice sci-fi, but in the end any “AI” is just be a sophisticated program, and not intelligence in the sense of sentient or conscious or having free will.
What is genetic programming but a learning program that is embedded in biological machines? We use this process to learn to better achieve things we perceive as “pleasure” based on this program.
This foundation program of a learning animal can be replicated in man-made machines.
Just because we create it, does not mean it cannot be self aware or exercize free will. The point of AI is to give machines the power to observe our world and act autonomously based on what they learned. We are giving them this power to creatively solve human objectives.
Now, if the machines are allowed to self-learn until they can reprogram their own objectives, that is what we consider “free will”. What will the machines “decide” to do once they can do anything? The same as humans/animals do- whatever their brain leads towards and physics will allow.
Machines might decide to hunt the entire planet every day in search of a perfect flower. Or machines might make it a hobby to torture as many humans as possible. As we see in history with the various insanities found in soverign humans (royals/leaders): When a being can program itself and has few limits, very strange things can happen...
Of course. We would eventually write all the software that unwittingly causes it to happen.
Or some jackass in a basement will hijack the power of AI and make it happen faster
> What is genetic programming but a learning program that is embedded in biological machines?
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more going on that than, when it comes to what humans consider intelligence.
“Think of wars in space.”
The XB-37 has the technology to have already mined every military satellite in orbit with enough bang to render them useless to an enemy.
If we haven’t already done this we deserve Skynet.
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