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Comment Yes. (Score 1) 62

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

Comment Re: remember WarGames? (Score 1) 48

That's beside the point.

Parent poster has a very valid point. "AI" figured out the concept of social engineering, how pull reqursts might be handled by an AI, how hacking side projects tonget into other side projects to get into somewhere else, to get information, might be a good strategy? And it did this from ingesting massive amounts if humans generated literature?

But somehow magically didn't grasp the fucking concept of "live" vs "test"?!

Gimme a break.

Comment Re:Governments don't have the right (Score 5, Interesting) 132

Wrong, it's a slight of hand. This is not about individual cameras, this is about the network that uses all cameras together to follow you no matter what you do, no matter where you go, people shouldn't have a government that follows their every step by using AI and networked devices. If this was about individual cameras you would have a point, it is not, it is unreasonable to allow a government to exist that creates a panopticon of this scale, citizens shouldn't feel like they are inside a prison and the warden is watching.

Comment Captain Obvious strikes again (Score 5, Insightful) 86

When you do a sport, like tennis, boxing, or whtever else -- what you've done in your training is teaching your stem brain to react and coordinate doszens of simultaneous tasks.

The thing is: it's only the neocortex that can't truly multitask.

Driving is a good example: you can do most of the tasks out of a well trained stem brain. The challenge is to not offload essential, complex decision-making tasks, requiring differentiate processing, and which therefore absolutely have to be on the neocortex -- or else people die.

This is why I don't like many driver assistance features: they draw away neocortex capacitiy, in other words: they're needlessly distracting.

Some are useful though.

Comment Re: You have 10 seconds to comply (Score 1) 60

I'm not American :-)

But I also don't buy the "more guns on the street" argument. Switzerland for instance must have a similar amount of guns, every adult male that goes through military training takes their own gun home for free (it's part of the Swiss defense strategy, apparently). Yet their police do just fine without running amok on their own population.

Comment Re: You have 10 seconds to comply (Score 1) 60

It was actually a trick question - because they're apparently mostly not "trained well", unless for a singular scope, which is destruction and killing. If they were trained well for what they should actually be doing -- namely a situationally adequate response -- then the phrase "swatting somebody" wouldn't even be a thing.

And incidentally, it's the same thung with automated weapons.

Benchmark of how well they work isn't how well they perform the one task they're made for. It's how well they recognize the situation calling for that one task, out of every other situation they may encounter and that doesn't.

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