Comment Furthermore... (Score 1) 49
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Comment Re:When you cut off a mans tongue..! (Score 1) 335
Do your OWN F***ING RESEARCH
Ah, the battlecry of woowoo's the world over.
Comment Re:There is no known physical process? (Score 1) 289
Or one could combine the two.
Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings (businessinsider.com) 107
"A former Google engineer who worked on the company's infamous military drone project has sounded a warning against the building of killer robots," reports Business Insider.
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger quotes their report: Laura Nolan had been working at Google four years when she was recruited to its collaboration with the US Department of Defense, known as Project Maven, in 2017, according to the Guardian. Project Maven was focused on using AI to enhance military drones, building AI systems which would be able to single out enemy targets and distinguish between people and objects. Google canned Project Maven after employee outrage, with thousands of employees signing a petition against the project and about a dozen quitting in protest. Google allowed the contract to lapse in March this year. Nolan herself resigned after she became "increasingly ethically concerned" about the project, she said...
Nolan fears that the next step beyond AI-enabled weapons like drones could be fully autonomous AI weapons. "What you are looking at are possible atrocities and unlawful killings even under laws of warfare, especially if hundreds or thousands of these machines are deployed," she said.... Although no country has yet come forward to say it's working on fully autonomous robot weapons, many are building more and more sophisticated AI to integrate into their militaries. The US navy has a self-piloting warship, capable of spending months at sea with no crew, and Israel boasts of having drones capable of identifying and attacking targets autonomously -- although at the moment they require a human middle-man to give the go-ahead.
Nolan is urging countries to declare an outright ban on autonomous killing robots, similar to conventions around the use of chemical weapons.
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger quotes their report: Laura Nolan had been working at Google four years when she was recruited to its collaboration with the US Department of Defense, known as Project Maven, in 2017, according to the Guardian. Project Maven was focused on using AI to enhance military drones, building AI systems which would be able to single out enemy targets and distinguish between people and objects. Google canned Project Maven after employee outrage, with thousands of employees signing a petition against the project and about a dozen quitting in protest. Google allowed the contract to lapse in March this year. Nolan herself resigned after she became "increasingly ethically concerned" about the project, she said...
Nolan fears that the next step beyond AI-enabled weapons like drones could be fully autonomous AI weapons. "What you are looking at are possible atrocities and unlawful killings even under laws of warfare, especially if hundreds or thousands of these machines are deployed," she said.... Although no country has yet come forward to say it's working on fully autonomous robot weapons, many are building more and more sophisticated AI to integrate into their militaries. The US navy has a self-piloting warship, capable of spending months at sea with no crew, and Israel boasts of having drones capable of identifying and attacking targets autonomously -- although at the moment they require a human middle-man to give the go-ahead.
Nolan is urging countries to declare an outright ban on autonomous killing robots, similar to conventions around the use of chemical weapons.
Comment Re: Why is this a surprise? (Score 1) 150
It's amazing how many arguments are merely arguments over definitions.
This depends on your definition of "argument".
Comment Re:Waxahachie, TX (Score 1) 53
Not if it's supposed to be linear it isn't.
Comment Re:C is not what people think it means (Score 1) 226
I thought the caveat was "with existing technology".
Comment Re:Not killed (Score 1) 334
"Whacked"?
Comment Re:I'm an RPA pilot (Score 1) 334
You're not some kind of hero, RPA pilot. You're a coward and a murderer.
Comment Re:Shit happens. (Score 1) 334
If you're worried about dying and are American, stay out of the Middle East.
They already had that covered, what with being in South Asia and all.
Comment Re:Upstart or Systemd? (Score 1) 494
Both are just change for changes sake [...]
Can people please stop regurgitating that nonsense?
Comment Re: a better question (Score 1) 592
And yet, why would you be running Linux and editing 4K video. There are no serious video editing programs for Linux.
The few people (likely less than a dozen) that run Linux on Mac on hardware are likely doing so to extend the life of the extremely-reliable hardware, rather than any issue with OS X.
Editing shmediting. If you want to do some serious post production (compositing, tracking, grading) there's some very popular programs for you out there. And I'm not talking about Blender either.
Comment Re:Already making waves (Score 1) 107
Professionals with jobs to do value stability and backward compatibility.
It would appear that these professionals with jobs had better learn to deal with moving targets. Stability and compatibility no longer exist in the old fashioned way.
Comment Re:Retarded feminists make me sick (Score 1) 608
Has anyone ever seen a feminist petition for more women to do construction jobs, cleaning jobs, heavy industrial trades etc?
Yes, actually.
Comment Re:Of course! (Score 1) 571
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