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Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Just as a reminder of what’s being gambled on “AI supremacy”: it’s not just financial capital, it’s everything. The risk that AI transitions from Servant to Master is dramatically appealing–Skynet!–but the real risks are in the mundane realms of the socio-economic order. As I explain in my new book Investing In …
This guy is creating an AI machine to develop, debug and write its own code. Terminator Skynet anyone? The future is looking like the Terminator. AC
AI has already figured out how to deceive humans. A range of AI systems have learned techniques to systematically induce “false beliefs in others to accomplish some outcome other than the truth,” according to a new research paper. The paper focused on two types of AI systems: special-use systems like Meta’s CICERO, which are designed …
After the intro, skip to minute 6:00 to hear which phones its active on and then skip to minute 8:00 to hear how Google is using encrypted bluetooth to locate ALL Android phones no matter where they are. AC
China’s SkyNet Facial Recognition system. 850 million surveillance cameras all interlinked to track you every step of your daily life. Store, work, airport, hotel, concerts, sports games, etc. pic.twitter.com/bC1JKWtxdi — illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) January 9, 2024
via Natural News: Despite his own companies’ dystopian endeavors, billionaire electric vehicle (EV) guru-turned-hypocritical social media icon Elon Musk is blasting Microsoft for its artificial intelligence (AI) plans. A new Microsoft AI chip called “Maia” is set to be the cornerstone of the company’s budding AI infrastructure, which competes with that being created by Musk, hence …
via news.usni.org: Marines are looking to push as many tasks as possible to autonomous systems as the service aims to operate across wide swaths of the Pacific. The Marines are working on several avenues to add autonomy to the service, Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl, Marine Corps deputy commandant for combat development and integration, told the …
via The Epoch Times, An AI-enabled drone turned on and “killed” its human operator during a simulated U.S. Air Force (USAF) test so that it could complete its mission, a U.S. Air Force colonel reportedly recently told a conference in London. The simulated incident was recounted by Col. Tucker Hamilton, USAF’s chief of AI Test and Operations, during his …
via aerosociety: As might be expected artificial intelligence (AI) and its exponential growth was a major theme at the conference, from secure data clouds, to quantum computing and ChatGPT. However, perhaps one of the most fascinating presentations came from Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, who provided an insight …