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[–] EisFrei 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Killbot industry: "We would never let a machine make the final decision. There'll always be a human element involved"

Human element:

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 13 points 1 year ago

The homeopathy of ethical compliance

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If abortion is banned because a cell cluster is human, this should be banned too

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As if it ever was about the cluster of cells and not the oppression of others...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But now we can technologically enforce the oppression! Isn't that great? You'll be implanted with the birthwisher 4000 so you won't even know, that you don't want to carry the product of rape in your womb!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think a large number of conservative Christians would find this abhorrent, but they are unlikely to know about it. If their sources do report on it the democrats will likely be blamed.

[–] Mini_Moonpie 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like this was the origin story for the computer in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

[–] Erasmus 1 points 1 year ago

It’s more like the origin story for the Cymeks in Dune. Although they were at least human once.

People worry about AI taking over the world when it will probably be human machine hybrids deciding ‘yeah fuck humans’ in their giant killer Mechs.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

So if the paddle hit the ball, the cells would receive a nice, predictable stimulus. But if it missed, the cells would get four seconds of totally unpredictable stimulation.

Ah yes, my second step after building biological AI is definitely "torture it". This is sure to end well.

Dudun Dun Dudum. Dudun Dun Dudum.

[–] darkmatterstyx 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't we get Jurassic Park before biological AI?

[–] TheGreatFox 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dinosaurs, while neat, do not bring sufficient profits for the offense industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see how the Russians handle raptors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This is fine

[–] Alimentar 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still feel that silicone is more reliable than dealing with organic matter that can die.

How do they keep it alive. Do you need to feed it or keep it in special conditions? With time, as the cells age, would you lose performance?

[–] MrBakedBeansOnToast 7 points 1 year ago

Once a bunch of nuclear warheads enter puberty we’re all fucked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Aw sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This has both more potential and more pure horror than any of the bland AI stuff we've been obsessing over.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why we need science fiction, to not be afraid of all the abhorrent and abhorrently efficient weapons the future holds for us.

And yes, Star Wars is a very perceptive choice of name on part of George Lucas.

The scary part is that we all sit on our sweaty bottoms while such things are being developed not by bad guys and good guys to fight each other over us, but by bad guys and bad guys to fight each other over us.

[–] lemmington_steele 4 points 1 year ago

idk man, at no point do any two or more stars fight each other /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

of course the military is interested in this... god.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We're really trying to find a way to boost LLM performance, huh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure if you just search the term "cyberpunk" you'd find at least five stories that start like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder, at the point where it’s neurons making up a very small piece of tissue, what benefit human cells give over something like a pig (the article does say human and mouse, but still).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It was scary stuff, but radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but...it gave us ideas, took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have never...All my work was based on it. -- Miles Dyson, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great, but concerning...

I'm aware that we're currently capable of reading the mind to some limited extent, using MRI-like machines and machine learning models trained on certain brain signals, but being able to literally utilise a brain for 'arbitrary' processing is on another level entirely 😳

I wonder what else this is capable of doing or running, and the expected shelf life in particular, seeing as it's basically biological matter that I'm assuming can age.

Let's hope these researchers keep things responsible and don't try to run a text generation model on it 😅 /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if you understand what military funded means... It's basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.

There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it's something positive and not be afraid.

The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations.

So while I like tech, I'm also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that "don't get children" is the best advice ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My name is Alex James Murphy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was kinda the other way round. But it's set in 2028... So maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they want to make Servitor AI ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Praise the Omnissiah!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thought emporium has a great series of videos of the work they are doing related to this.

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