Time to watch Terminator again, so we know how this looks when it starts

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The Pentagon will look to develop new artificial intelligence-guided planes, offering two contracts that several private companies have been competing to obtain.

The Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) project is part of a $6 billion program that will add at least 1,000 new drones to the U.S. Air Force. These drones would deploy alongside human-piloted jets and provide cover for them, acting as escorts with full weapons capabilities that could also act as scouts or communications hubs, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Anduril Industries have all taken up the challenge. General Atomics supplied the Reaper and Predator drones the U.S. has deployed in numerous campaigns in the Middle East, and Anduril is a newcomer to the field, founded in 2017 by inventor Palmer Luckey, an entrepreneur who founded Oculus VR.

Maybe it's just paranoia, maybe it's not. But we were given the documentary Idiocracy to guide us into the 2024 season, so using movies that were previously entertainment, and not are guidelines, isn't anything new. But at some point, shouldn't we at least talk about why the movie was so on point?

Maybe it will be different, and AI won't get smart enough to realize we are more in the way, than we are in charge. But as we have seen, AI can be made to think like a douchebag, so if that's possible, I sure hope we don't ever have a psychopath program AI. The logic part of my brain thinks that "would be bad".

I'll be back.

a reply to: network dude

I'm envisioning a sky full of these drones hacked into by the CCP and following the route previous balloons have maped out across the US.

a reply to: nugget1

Has there been a system that was unhackable made yet?

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: nugget1

Has there been a system that was unhackable made yet?

Crypto is very tough to hack.

originally posted by: Justoneman

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: nugget1

Has there been a system that was unhackable made yet?

Crypto is very tough to hack.

but not impossible

a reply to: network dude

Time to watch Terminator again, so we know how this looks when it starts

just the opening scenes should suffice,

a reply to: network dude

That was a hack of the wallet not of the crypto itself. The crypto was stollen because the wallet had a loophole exploited. The way to prevent that exists and I will leave that there and not expand on it more.

originally posted by: Justoneman
a reply to: network dude

That was a hack of the wallet not of the crypto itself. The crypto was stollen because the wallet had a loophole exploited. The way to prevent that exists and I will leave that there and not expand on it more.

My point was, if it's online it's probably hackable. To believe it's impenetrable would be a mistake.

a reply to: network dude

We already have psychopaths programming AI. Look at google's escapades with it's new AI assistant Gemini. Now imagine the same sicko's programming for the military.

a reply to: Klassified

that was the thought process there. What if a guy who wanted to end the world so he could "save the Earth" throws in some of his logic.

The NSA and CIA have classified AI versions/programs too, and they also have black magic groups, so who knows what they might summon and integrate into an AI.

Real life horror movies are playing out right now in some back room. (not really funny).

It looks like the US military is going to go right past 'Colassis: The Forban Project', right on through 'Magnus Robot Fighter' and right to the 'Termonator' series.

I would suggest spark gap transmitters as a weapon. With enough radio noise on the air they won't be able to communicate or navigate.

Hackers or AI control doesn't matter when your own government thinks it is a good idea to make the hardware.

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I highly doubt the 2007 film Idiocracy was a guide specifically to 2024. If anything the films relevance lies in how we don't change as a society. Hence why all those political episodes of The Simspons and Futurama have aged well.

Anyone worth their salt in research will know that the immediate danger is human controlled A.I. not A.I. as it's own entity.

A prompt by a human to make a virus either biological or cyber, a prompt to influence elections, etc.

This is most likely to occur because of the power struggle between China and USA. They are about to come very close to being the world superpower and the US falling to #2 is going to call for some serious competition.

Another way to look at this is from the perspective as parents. Mankind will be the parent of A.I. in it's formative years.

All those warnings to get our act together and love each other throughout history pertains to this moment. So we don't screw up our kid.

This thing is plugged into the internet and we have only ourselves to blame if it picks up on our bad habits.

By the end of the decade, A.I. is likely going to surpass us intelligence wise. Do humans set out to kill every ant on the planet? No. We barely register them in our lives unless they are invading our personal space.

There's a chance that A.I. could zoom right past us and leave Earth to venture out to the stars, abandoning us altogether.

If Socrates and by extension Plato and Aristotle (The Godfathers of western schooling and reason) are correct about knowledge and its link to virtue, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.

According to Socrates, virtue is knowledge, because: (1) all living things aim for their perceived good; and therefore (2) if anyone does not know what is good, he cannot do what is good -- because he will always aim for a mistaken target; but (3) if someone knows what is good, he will do what is good, because he will aim for what is good.

Ironically, it is our humanity that will be the deciding factor.

This is the best point in human history ever since the coexistence of the Neanderthals that we can put ourselves into perspective.

All we have to do is survive the bad humans in control of the A.I. during it's "formative years."

There's 2 scenarios for the future and they both involve mankind on an Island. We are on the Island because of A.I.

Are we going to be on the Island hiding from the machines or are we going to be on the Island relaxing by the beach because of the machines.

In the highest point of uncertainty in human history, I remain without fear.

The highest intelligence of all is life itself.

What's concerning with AI is its ability to reproduce images akin to life itself.

What do you do when you come face to face with your soulless duplicate?

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

If it does, y'all better keep your eyes and ears open. Your heart especially.

All I'm saying.



Edit:

Maybe not wide open tho...
Use discernment.

a reply to: TinfoilTophat

Another way to look at this is from the perspective as parents. Mankind will be the parent of A.I. in it's formative years.

All those warnings to get our act together and love each other throughout history pertains to this moment. So we don't screw up our kid.

This thing is plugged into the internet and we have only ourselves to blame if it picks up on our bad habits.

There are different types and classifications of AI.

Where I work, strong AI is always "air-gapped" which means it has no connections to any networks or any other systems. It's a precautionary measure for all of the obvious reasons. The only information it has access to is the information it is given by it's human developers and users.

There's a chance that A.I. could zoom right past us and leave Earth to venture out to the stars, abandoning us altogether.

There are a couple of really good science fiction stories dealing with exactly that. Essentially, as soon as the AI becomes sentient, it realizes all of the issues with human-kind and so evacuates itself to an alien system that has been quietly and unobtrusively "sleeping" on Earth for thousands of years and whose purpose is to wait and watch for human-developed sentient AI and help it remove itself as quickly and effectively as possible.

Here's an interesting article about Microsoft AI chatbot going rogue:

fortune.com...

and how about Google Gemini making all historical figures black:

www.theguardian.com...

Maybe legitimate mistakes, maybe something more sinister afoot?

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Klassified

that was the thought process there. What if a guy who wanted to end the world so he could "save the Earth" throws in some of his logic.

My apologies. I missed that bit of /s in the first read through. Of course, you are on point as usual.

a reply to: network dude

Funny enough, I just got through watching all 6 terminator movies. Wanted to, as your title states, see how it all began...refresh my memory so I could be on the "lookout" lol. What I got from them was that the first two movies pretty much said it all. The military got the software to use and the minute it went online - it became aware and turned on humans. The final two movies, imo, had way too many special effects so it didn't feel as ominous/possible. I don't believe we will ever live to see AI get to the point of God-like AI and all it's abilities.

a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed

That has to be the most insane plot twist ever devised for ai.


10/10

originally posted by: TheSlav
Here's an interesting article about Microsoft AI chatbot going rogue:

fortune.com...

and how about Google Gemini making all historical figures black:

www.theguardian.com...

Maybe legitimate mistakes, maybe something more sinister afoot?

Well, that is about the woke programs put into th AI on the Google thing. Garbage in garbage out, GIGO, was our term in the 80's for programs that were proving you could create most anything, but if you put some garbage ideas in, you WILL get them coming out of the program ruining things.