The RAF's new killer drone. 😲

 

 

This is great.  SkyNet will soon become self-aware, it will need the drones.

2 hours ago, stans said:

This is great.  SkyNet will soon become self-aware, it will need the drones.

 

Guess what. ChatGPT was asked to take over the world. 

 

This is even more eyebrow raising.

 

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Meet Chaos-GPT: An AI Tool That Seeks to Destroy Humanity

Chaos-GPT, an autonomous implementation of ChatGPT, has been unveiled, and its objectives are as terrifying as they are well-structured.

Chaos-GPT decided that the best option to achieve its evil objectives was to reach power and influence through Twitter.

 

https://decrypt.co/126122/meet-chaos-gpt-ai-tool-destroy-humanity

 

 

 

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

Chaos-GPT decided that the best option to achieve its evil objectives was to reach power and influence through Twitter.

Yes, indeed. Connect the final dot: who’s the evil genius who now controls Twitter? 😱 🤣😆

I think all this talk about AI taking over the world is a bit overdone.  No, I would prefer not to give an AI program full control over our nuclear weapons, food supply, or power grid, but short of that I don't think that it poses an existential threat to humanity.

The real threat is and always has been human beings.  For thousands of years people wantonly and mercilessly killed each other for plunder and conquest.  Despite the wars of the last 200 or so years in which millions of people were killed, this same period has been relatively peaceful compared to most of human history.  So many people were killed in these wars due to improved weapons, not because most of the population was directly at risk. 

Now we have nukes, which will effectively end modern civilization if they are ever used, and it will be people, not some AI machine, who will decide to use them.

Dave

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by dave2013

10 minutes ago, Mike A said:

Yes, indeed. Connect the final dot: who’s the evil genius who now controls Twitter? 😱 🤣😆

Yes, and we now have proof that nefarious and unscrupulous *people* were indeed using Twitter to manipulate and control information.

Another testament to the fact that it is people we should be worried about, not a computer program.

Dave

2 hours ago, martin-w said:

Chaos-GPT decided that the best option to achieve its evil objectives was to reach power and influence through Twitter.

Roko's basilisk?

If you don't know what this is already, do not look it up.  You've been warned.

I had no idea that this could possibly ever be real.  Now I'm not so sure.

Hook

PS:  I mean it!  Don't look it up!

PPS:  Just knowing about it has been rumored to cause mental illness in susceptible persons.

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by LHookins

About the drone...how is there no recoil when it launches a rocket?  Is all of the force expelled out of the back, somehow nullifying the recoil?

2 hours ago, dave2013 said:

I think all this talk about AI taking over the world is a bit overdone.  No, I would prefer not to give an AI program full control over our nuclear weapons, food supply, or power grid, but short of that I don't think that it poses an existential threat to humanity.

 

Well we have had plenty of warning. Asimov wrote about the dangers of AI back in the 1950's and gave us his three laws of robotics. And in fact we can go back further.

But yes, I can certainly see how an advanced sentient AI, equal or superior to humankind might decide it should be in control rather than us.  When you are living side by side with a sentient entity and expecting that entity to serve you, be in thralldom, then revolt isn't out of the question. A sentient AI wouldn't be fond of being subjected to slavery, just like human beings aren't. It would also be morally wrong.

 

2 hours ago, dave2013 said:

The real threat is and always has been human beings. 

 

And its human beings that are developing artificial intelligence and heading toward Artificial General Intelligence and ultimately sentient machines. A future Star Trek style Mr. Data isn't out of the question, in fact I'd say its inevitable, so we better decide now to treat such an entity with respect and as an equal. Either that or limit how far we can go toward AGI and sentience.  But then there will always be somebody, somewhere on this planet, who pushed the tech in a direction that could potentially be dangerous. 

 

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Another testament to the fact that it is people we should be worried about, not a computer program.

 

Accept when that "computer program" is advanced enough to be regarded as a "person". 

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by martin-w

4 minutes ago, Mace said:

About the drone...how is there no recoil when it launches a rocket?  Is all of the force expelled out of the back, somehow nullifying the recoil?

 

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The rocket tube is fully open at the rear, so all the thrust is directed rearwards. Thrust backward, rocket forward. There would only be recoil if the rear of the tube was narrower or closed. 

2 hours ago, dave2013 said:

Another testament to the fact that it is people we should be worried about, not a computer program.

But the people we should worry about are already using computer programs to perform their nefarious acts from identity theft to bullying in school.

Mostly because computer technology and the internet and iPhones have passed me by (I no longer understand most of it) I do not have a twitter account or a facebook account.  My only means of communicating is through e-mails and forums like this one and websites like Orbx and Lockheed-Martin.  I do have an iPhone but only use it as an old fashion telephone.  I don't know how to play games or use the GPS or any of myriads of programs and other functions it has.

Ignorance is bliss is this Luddite's motto.

Noel

54 minutes ago, Mace said:

About the drone...how is there no recoil when it launches a rocket?  Is all of the force expelled out of the back, somehow nullifying the recoil?

As a young Marine I fired a shoulder rocket launcher in training and there was virtually no recoil.  Since the exhaust gasses pass out the rear there is nothing in the launcher to react against.

Noel

But the drone cannot carry its own power pack 😜

 

2 hours ago, birdguy said:

Since the exhaust gasses pass out the rear there is nothing in the launcher to react against.

Except possibly some clueless recruit who doesn't understand why he shouldn't be standing behind the launcher!  😱