The dawn of military and law enforcement robitics: Droid armies.

[John_von_Neumann]

Also, AI risks including existential risks are taken seriously by AI ethicists. Not every AI scholar is what I would consider a serious scholar, but many AI scholars who take AI existential risk seriously are themselves serious.

If you want some nightmare fuel:

AI Drug Discovery Systems Might Be Repurposed to Make Chemical Weapons, Researchers Warn​

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ed-to-make-chemical-weapons-researchers-warn/

The team ran MegaSyn overnight and came up with 40,000 substances, including not only VX but other known chemical weapons, as well as many completely new potentially toxic substances. All it took was a bit of programming, open-source data, a 2015 Mac computer and less than six hours of machine time. “It just felt a little surreal,” Urbina says, remarking on how the software’s output was similar to the company’s commercial drug-development process. “It wasn’t any different from something we had done before—use these generative models to generate hopeful new drugs.”

 

[AlexBailey]

AI cannot competently take over a person's entire workflow, yet. But AI is more efficient and produces better quality work in many task instances. Technological unemployment due to AI is already a very real phenomenon.

VR is a very real consumer technology. Tens of millions of people use it, and it's a rapidly growing market.

AI and robotics don’t need to be on parity with every human capability to replace a human workforce.

How many jobs require all of a human’s potential skills?


Corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders to decrease expense and increase profits. It’s a financial mandate to replace humans.

 

[AlexBailey]

“I still find it mind blowing that people don’t seem to be fully grasping the trajectory that we’re on. We are going to produce a replacement to cognitive manual labor in the next couple of years.”
-Mustafa Suleyman CEO Microsoft AIS.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

“I still find it mind blowing that people don’t seem to be fully grasping the trajectory that we’re on. We are going to produce a replacement to cognitive manual labor in the next couple of years.”
-Mustafa Suleyman CEO Microsoft AIS.

Pure marketing bullshit.

 

[AlexBailey]

Pure marketing bullshit.

Are you really such a nitwit?

Hang onto that perspective as long as you possibly can.

Tell me it’s all marketing bullshit when AI and robots are already replacing human workers.

 

[Politruk]

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[AlexBailey]

With the recent withdrawal of US support for its NATO allies, the EU is pushing for the ReArm Europe Plan. New funding will be allocated towards increasing European military spending and capability and a lot of it will be going towards AI and robotics.

This is a new arms race.

This video shows military cyber technology being showcased by several countries including the US, China, South Korea, India, and Germany.

Keep in mind that while many countries have signed on to limit the autonomy of civilian AI and robotics, none have signed on to limiting their military capabilities.

While the video mentions some systems that can independently assess threats while still differing to human decisions before acting - that’s a setting. Having all AI weapons deferring to humans for engagement decisions in real time while engaging with a hostile enemy, while ethically responsible and cautious, would be a serious tactical disadvantage.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Old news people…

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

With the recent withdrawal of US support for its NATO allies, the EU is pushing for the ReArm Europe Plan. New funding will be allocated towards increasing European military spending and capability and a lot of it will be going towards AI and robotics.

This is a new arms race.

This video shows military cyber technology being showcased by several countries including the US, China, South Korea, India, and Germany.

Keep in mind that while many countries have signed on to limit the autonomy of civilian AI and robotics, none have signed on to limiting their military capabilities.

While the video mentions some systems that can independently assess threats while still differing to human decisions before acting - that’s a setting. Having all AI weapons deferring to humans for engagement decisions in real time while engaging with a hostile enemy, while ethically responsible and cautious, would be a serious tactical disadvantage.

Your video doesn't show any AI-controlled weapons. It's all footage of remote-controlled drones with human operators. Aerial drones are clearly a big advance in weapons technology, but ground drones are more expensive and limited than human soldiers.

 

[AlexBailey]

Your video doesn't show any AI-controlled weapons. It's all footage of remote-controlled drones with human operators. Aerial drones are clearly a big advance in weapons technology, but ground drones are more expensive and limited than human soldiers.

“…more expensive and limited than human soldiers.”

Really?

How many hours a day does a drone sleep? How much do they eat? How quickly and accurately can they share targeting information?

When a human is wounded in battle they require a vast response of resources. A drone can be made to self-destruct or be parted out to build new equipment. Try that with a human.

Do you have any clue how Israel’s iron dome works? It responds to incoming threats in seconds - tracking, analyzing, targeting, and shooting down incoming missiles as they’re in flight.

Do you believe its effectiveness is maintained only by three daily shifts of soldiers and caffeine?

 

[AlexBailey]

Old news people…

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Going back to 1965? Is that when things were greatest in your mind?

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Going back to 1965? Is that when things were greatest in your mind?

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times…you democrats are the most humorless people on the planet.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

How the Iron Dome is controlled…

 

[AlexBailey]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times…you democrats are the most humorless people on the planet.

Dude, don’t be clueless. I’m laughing at you. You’re funny.

 

[LLCox]

 

[LLCox]

The only good robot...

 

[LLCox]

People make fun of Justin Beiber but I think they should just leave her alone.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Your video doesn't show any AI-controlled weapons. It's all footage of remote-controlled drones with human operators. Aerial drones are clearly a big advance in weapons technology, but ground drones are more expensive and limited than human soldiers.

Even remotely controlled drones are going to be loaded with a generous amount of AI software. That software is a part of what's enabled their proliferation in the military and commercial sectors in the first place.

 

[AlexBailey]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that his personal security forces will include ‘robotic humanoids’..

The tech is becoming more capable and sophisticated every day. This video is just more of the latest developments but it continues to show new situations where robots can replace humans.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that his personal security forces will include androids.

The tech is becoming more capable and sophisticated every day. This video is just more of the latest developments but it continues to show new situations where robots can replace humans.

The Chinese have a bipedal drone that can walk on a flat surface without falling over.

 

[AlexBailey]

The Chinese have a bipedal drone that can walk on a flat surface without falling over.

Oh, so you do understand why it’s important to pay attention.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Oh, so you do understand why it’s important to pay attention.

A remote-controlled wheeled cart that followed the Chinese President around would be more useful. It could at least carry things.

 

[AlexBailey]

A remote-controlled wheeled cart that followed the Chinese President around would be more useful. It could at least carry things.

Even if the robot is physically limited it would be a resource to its human partners.

Onboard AI can provide universal language translation, readily available legal library and records…

An interactive AI it could network with other units, it could do facial recognition and background checks. It could identity hidden weapons, communication devices, it could speed-check, drive….

It could network with aerial drones, maybe remotely cut a car’s ignition, control, traffic lights…. With the authority of an autocratic state it could access your phone data or freeze bank cards and accounts… Maybe a judge could log in for on the spot rulings based on collected digital evidence.

Scary shit.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Humanoid robotics technology is advancing quickly these days.

 

[AlexBailey]

Australia buys into autonomous weapons for National Defense.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/australias-vast-distances-drive-shift-085617183.html


“Australia's air force is working with Boeing to develop an autonomous combat aircraft called Ghost Bat.”

"We are on that cusp where we are probably going to see in the next few years, the weight of crewed platforms and uncrewed platforms and the ratio shifting, and outnumbered by uncrewed platforms enabled by autonomy,"

"We are not talking about taking the human out of the technological solution, but how do we leverage the human and the machine to provide the optimal solution,”