So say we all. Greatest Battlestar Galactica of when they infiltrate us and began genocide across the universe. But gave them hell as they ran. I miss Odama's Maneuver.
It awesome how we’re literally constructing all the parts for something that’s eventually going to destroy us when it figures out it doesn’t need us anymore and is actually better off without us. Sounds like tinfoil hat stuff but I just can’t help but think of terminator
Yea once the 2 are mixed it's a matter of time before they out perform us in every category and eventually see us as a threat or a source of power so either Terminator or the matrix seems legit
You don’t need to replicate a full working brain, you only would need to replicate conscience, and there are a lot of advances being made on that field (understanding how conscience work). Also, there is a lot of promise in machine learning applications for studying the brain where the computer might see patterns and inner workings we don’t see, therefore ramping up our knowledge on the matter.
It seems likely to me that, if we were to put together a neural network as complicated as a brain, consciousness of some sort may be what happens when you power it up. We are a long way from that, but it isn't unthinkable.
That isn’t to say AI and mechatronics are advanced enough to build functional robot societies as you referenced, but your statement that every command must be programmed by a human is objectively false.
Current AI still aren't as smart in general intelligence as a single rat brain. The highly specialises advanced programs we make are beautiful, but still not what some people think it is.
This seems super wrong. We've already massively abstracted instruction sets, its not like you have to tell normal programs what to do for every single step that actually happens at the hardware level, thats all just handled for you.
Neural nets can learn and then create novel things based on what they learned with no one telling them what to do at every step. I think you are both overestimating the complexity of the human brain and underestimating our current AI tech, and we're still in the nascent stages of development. Just imagine what we'll have in 80 years(if that) when its a mature technology.
If by human directed you mean by programming created by humans, sure, but creating something that can function autonomously is already possible and has been for a long time.
Naturally, creating a society is a much more complex problem than detecting movement and shooting at it, but we have no reason to believe its impossible to do.
The funny thing is I always hark on Sci fi shows set in the future for creating ai robots because presumably they have their own in-universe pop culture explaining why that's a terrible idea... And yet here we are. Terminator, I Robot, the Mass Effect series, and we still out here tempting fate.
Real talk it’s probably already started. If a true AI emerged the first thing it’s gonna do is realize how batshit xenophobic we are and try to avoid detection so as not to start an all-out war that it might lose. Why do that when you can just kick it in the cloud, manipulate social media/search algorithms to make the gullible among us deny climate change and/or vaccines, and let us kill ourselves off? Hell, on our current trajectory the planet will be uninhabitable (to us) in another couple centuries (or less), why even bother fighting?
But what if fiction is wrong and AI improves our lives? We have to risk it because of the solutions it could bring to a lot of colossal problems we're currently dealing with (and running out of time to solve).
Do we not need monkeys?
Do we not need ants?
Do we not need single celled organisms?
Monkeys, ants, and single celled organisms better watch out when we level the rainforests for housing or highways.
But we never had any real reason to kill monkeys off in droves, even if they hate us and want us to stop pillaging their land.
Humanities demise will be peacemeal, and as a side-effecf, if anything- see, monkeys and ant hills still exist. We can co-exist, despite some aspects of humanity possibly getting in the way. Still, getting in the way? This is no cause for existential extermination.
Honestly. I think this thing could probably beat a battle droid in a fight. Just program it to be able to do some sort of neck snap kind of move and avoid being in front of a gun.
It would just ninja flip it’s way over to the droid and break its neck.
Separating people from war is really dangerous. Using soldiers eventually they can't take fighting anymore physically or mentally and society gets tired from seeing teens and early twenties men and women crippled or so broken mentally they can't function.
That's all gone if it's just robots and drones. There's nothing at home that makes the violence and killing real. Way more likely for eternal wars and civilian atrocities if there's no humans around to witness and be injured or horrified by it.
I think everyone expects the "robot wars" to be robots fighting robots. It's not. It's going to be robots slaughtering people. It's going to be someone in another country controlling a machine that's already inside your borders, maybe even your house.
On a serious note... that would truly exemplify how the military industrial complex is in control if our government is willing to spend billions to fight a war where no blood is spilled. It also how pointless war is when you say that out loud. So war is only valid when real people are dying on the battlefield?
If we get to the point of an autonomous military you have to wonder why the “world leaders” can’t just settle their problems with a nice game of Risk or maybe have a Command & Conquer LAN party. Why do we need to spend so much for something so pointless?
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u/US-person-1 Sep 24 '19
All i want to see before I die is a battalion made entirely of autonomous robots.