More than 50 academic experts on artificial intelligence have all signed a pledge not to consult or work with South Korea’s top engineering school, KAIST, formerly the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology. Their objection stems from the schools announced collaboration with South Korea’s top robotics firms in the design weapons controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).
The intellectual boycott comes just a week before the UN’s meeting to discuss the proliferation of AI weapons with the objective of creating a moratorium on such advanced technology. The professor leading the boycott, Toby Walsh, believes that a number of nations are already in an arms race to create and field AI weapons. The professor fears that this advance in military technology would be a “Pandora’s Box” of future atrocities easily committed by machines that are unable to distinguish between combatants and civilians. More
It’s too late AI is ingrained in military hardware.
Why not have “bot” wars and keep people out of it totally.
Build a huge coliseum that holds 250,000 people, each country can have 100 “bots” as combatants.
Sell tickets for $100 and allow gambling.
The country with the last surviving bot wins $25 Million Dollars and receives whatever the countries were in a dispute over.
The future of warfare will be filled with AI and robots, but it’ll be more than just autonomous drones clashing on the battlefield. It’ll include humans and computers working together to attack and defend military systems. More importantly, it’ll be a world where whoever builds the best artificial intelligence will emerge the victor.
http://www.darpa.mil/tag-list?tt=73
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3361746/US-military-reveals-hopes-use-artificial-intelligence-create-cybersoldiers-help-fly-F-35-fighter-jet-admits-playing-catch-up.html
Whoever heard of a Korean named Al, anyway?
It’s pronounced Ar.
Boys.
It’s almost showtime.
And traitor John McCain’s http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/06/john-mccain-urges-united-states-to-rejoin-trans-pacific-partnership/
Colossus beat me to it.
The SlamHounds are just about ready to take the field. Which is, of course, the entire planet.
We as humans cannot pause in the global race to make better, faster, smarter weapons. Perhaps they can help us out where the Giant Meteor has failed us. Worked in that field for a while. This was during the early “smart” weapons and far before the “brilliant” ones. AI will be a game changer.
We were used to making the rules. Read some recent DOD directives for contractors involved in AI and “self programming” systems that ‘visibility’ into the part of the systems where the decisions are being made MUST be implemented. Because right now, today, a whole lot of AI developmental and operational platforms make their decisions with processes we cannot observe during execution. Building in this ‘port’ to observe the internal actions is not a trivial engineering problem.
Scary shit right there.
Seen the video for the VERY SMALL ones to take particular individuals?
“…atrocities easily committed by machines that are unable to distinguish between…”
You mean kind of like self-driving cars?