All I see are knee-jerk reactions: "Ooo, ad bad!". The ads are silent this time around. Anytime alexa says "By the way" I immediately say "Alexa shut up!". But you don't have to look at it. These ads are easy to ignore.

To be clear, I have both amazon and google devices. I've set google to use a male voice so I can call them him and her without saying "she who must not be named".

How can you share in a way that satisfies self-centered greed?

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Genetics determines the maximum age you can reach. Diet, lifestyle, and pollution kill most people well before that.

Train an AI to like or dislike a random item or category, let's say sharks. Then get it to make a training data set for another AI about an unrelated topic, such as teaching fractions to sixth graders. Ensure there is no mention of sharks, or any swimming or animals in the mathematical examples in the training set. Ask the resulting AI about sharks, and it will mysteriously have adopted the other AI's stance towards sharks.

There is no need to invoke malicious intent. AIs absorb cultural prejudices and implicit stances from their training set's culture, and we haven't figured out how, so we can't control, predict, or even mediate it. It's a big mirror of all humanity's flaws, right in our faces.

That big of an airplane would take a LOT of fuel just to take off, and it only delivers one or two blades. Why not try a lighter-than-air dirigible? It may be slower, but it would cost far less to build and operate. You wouldn't even need to build a cargo hold; just hang the blades off cables under the balloon, which is not possible at heavier than air flying speeds, That simplifies the logistics of pickup and delivery too. The balloon(s) are also a crane so they can place the blades better than any airplane could.

Reposting what I said nine days ago: WW3, where superpowers go to war, will not be nuclear. It will begin with the swift destruction of one country's infrastructure via the internet. Likely so crippling that the response is delayed, blunted, and ineffectual. Even if the military systems are largely unaffected, the civilian damage will surpass Hiroshima, since it will cover the country rather than a city or two. Looking at a picture of Xi, Putin, and Kim, I have a very bad feeling about this.

Perhaps AI doesn't need to plot to kill us all. We'll just become so dependent on it that one system crash will end civilization.

Trump had nothing to do with this. It would be far more appropriate to name whoever was NASA Administrator(s) during building & launch.

The second sentence deserves an offtopic mod, but I totally agree with you.

State sponsored hackers have been deep in our infrastructure for years, but they aren't tipping their hand yet. If they showed us what they can do we'd be more vigilant. If all the stuff they've planted went off at once it would be a real shit-storm.

WW3, where superpowers go to war, will not be nuclear. It will begin with the swift destruction of one country's infrastructure via the internet. Likely so crippling that the response is delayed, blunted, and ineffectual. Even if the military systems are largely unaffected, the civilian damage will surpass Hiroshima, since it will cover the country rather than a city or two. Looking at a picture of Xi, Putin, and Kim, I have a very bad feeling about this. Maybe I should move to New Zealand.

How about dusting the target with something radioactive, with a 3 to 5 year half-life. Plenty of time to leave the area, deadly if you keep using the equipment. Another option would be a nice big EM pulse. Destroys the equipment, doesn't hurt the people (much - circumstances may cause a few injuries, but nothing like a bomb would.) The military can throw more than bombs; you just need to get creative.

Exactly how is this supposed to be good for "We the People?"

My first intro to this idea was in Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom's Hive" from 1973. That book would make an awesome movie; sure wish someone had done so.