Skynet is coming.

[krenshala]

Why does that sound like an Onion article to me?

[zapkitty]

Why does that sound like an Onion article to me?

Because it is... half the of the Zero Hedge article is a quote from an Onion spoof on the subject:

http://www.theonion.com/article/horribl ... xpos-53841

I guess the Onion article confirmed the bias of the Zero Hedge writer so strongly they just couldn't let it go

[paperburn1]

Or it was an article written by a AI
They tend not to get sarcasm
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/25/mo ... you-think/

[krenshala]

Or it was an article written by a AI
They tend not to get sarcasm
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/25/mo ... you-think/

That was an interesting article. Thank you for posting it.

[paperburn1]

Or it was an article written by a AI
They tend not to get sarcasm
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/25/mo ... you-think/

That was an interesting article. Thank you for posting it.

Your welcome, There is another interesting video I recommend called "humans need not apply " written by professor CP Grey. It is on youtube and also very interesting on the same line as above

[Diogenes]

Nowhere to Hide: Algorithms Are Learning to ID Pixelated Faces

Blurring or pixelating information to obscure it may not work anymore thanks to machine learning researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University. The researchers developed an algorithm that could identify faces and numbers even after they were blurred out.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... red-faces/



Are you an enemy of the state?

[choff]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... ab-8846563

Looks like the robot was trying to petition politicians for equivalent to human rights.

[hanelyp]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... ab-8846563

Looks like the robot was trying to petition politicians for equivalent to human rights.

Can it demonstrate that it understands human rights, and can respect them in others?

[krenshala]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... ab-8846563

Looks like the robot was trying to petition politicians for equivalent to human rights.

Can it demonstrate that it understands human rights, and can respect them in others?

I'm thinking quite a few humans would fail that one.

[Diogenes]

Gun-Show Customers' License Plates Come Under Scrutiny - WSJ

Federal agents have persuaded police officers to scan license plates to gather information about gun-show customers, government emails show, raising questions about how officials monitor constitutionally protected activity.

Emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency crafted a plan in 2010 to use license-plate readers—devices that record the plate numbers of all passing cars—at gun shows in Southern California, including one in Del Mar, not far from the Mexican border.

http://kenm77.newsvine.com/_news/2016/1 ... rutiny-wsj







Eventually they will have automated license plate readers everywhere so they can effectively track the movements of suspects and dissidents.

[hanelyp]

What legal purpose would the FBI have for a list of people who attend gun shows? Or should I ask what illegal purpose?

[Diogenes]

Controversial AI has been trained to kill humans in a Doom deathmatch

A competition pitting artificial intelligence (AI) against human players in the classic video game Doom has demonstrated just how advanced AI learning techniques have become – but it's also caused considerable controversy.

While several teams submitted AI agents for the deathmatch, two students in the US have caught most of the flak, after they published a paper online detailing how their AI bot learned to kill human players in deathmatch scenarios.

The computer science students, Devendra Chaplot and Guillaume Lample, from Carnegie Mellon University, used deep learning techniques to train their AI bot – nicknamed Arnold – to navigate the 3D environment of the first-person shooter Doom.

http://www.sciencealert.com/controversi ... deathmatch

[Diogenes]

More of this is coming.


ISIS targeting foreign troops with explosives-laden drones

A video belonging to an al Qaeda offshoot, Jund al-Aqsa, purportedly shows a drone landing on Syrian military barracks. In another video, small explosives purportedly dropped by the Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah target the Sunni militant group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front.

In the first reported instance of Western forces being targeted with a drone, the French government confirmed Wednesday that two of the country’s special operations troops were injured by an ISIS drone rigged with explosives in northern Iraq, where they were operating alongside Kurdish Peshmerga. Two of the Peshmerga fighters were killed in the attack.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-target ... ing-bombs/


Drone Swarms will be an infantryman weapon at some point.

[Diogenes]

And, right on cue.

A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one- or two-gram shaped charge. You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to say: “Here are thousands of photographs of the kinds of things I want to target.” A one-gram shaped charge can punch a hole in nine millimeters of steel, so presumably you can also punch a hole in someone’s head. You can fit about three million of those in a semi-tractor-trailer. You can drive up I-95 with three trucks and have 10 million weapons attacking New York City. They don’t have to be very effective, only 5 or 10% of them have to find the target.

There will be manufacturers producing millions of these weapons that people will be able to buy just like you can buy guns now, except millions of guns don’t matter unless you have a million soldiers. You need only three guys to write the program and launch them. So you can just imagine that in many parts of the world humans will be hunted. They will be cowering underground in shelters and devising techniques so that they don’t get detected. This is the ever-present cloud of lethal autonomous weapons.

They could be here in two to three years.

— Stuart Russell, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California Berkeley

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahatopol/ho ... .plaq74wAE

[Diogenes]

Army Lasers Will Soon Destroy Enemy Mortars, Artillery and Drones From Strykers

The Army and General Dynamics Land Systems are developing a Stryker-mounted laser weapon aimed at better arming the vehicle to incinerate enemy drones or threatening ground targets.

Concept vehicles are now being engineered and tested at the Army’s Ft. Sill artillery headquarters as a way to quickly develop the weapon for operational service. During a test this past April, the laser weapons successful shot down 21 out of 23 enemy drone targets.

http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/s ... ser-weapon