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China's New Policing Computer Is Frontend Cattle Prod, Backend Supercomputer (computerworld.com)
Earlier this year, we learned about China's first "intelligent security robot," which was said to include "electrically charged riot control tool." We now know what this robot is up to, and what its developed unit looks like. Reader dcblogs writes: China recently deployed what it calls a "security robot" in a Shenzhen airport. It's named AnBot and patrols around the clock. It is a cone-shaped robot that includes a cattle prod. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which look at autonomous system deployments in a report last week, said AnBot, which has facial recognition capability, is designed to be linked with China's latest supercomputers. AnBot may seem like a 'Saturday Night Live' prop, but it's far from it. The back end of this "intelligent security robot" is linked to China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, where it has access to cloud services. AnBot conducts patrols, recognizes threats and has multiple cameras that use facial recognition. These cloud services give the robots petascale processing power, well beyond onboard processing capabilities in the robot. The supercomputer connection is there "to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices," said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review.
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I bet if you open the thing's source code you'll see something like while(true) {printf("Exterminate and destroy!\n");}
Hilarity ensues.
Or is it Hirarity enshues?
"to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices,"
I've observed that a cattle prod is an effective motivator to enhance learning. It works really well on programmers.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Wow, such impressive processing power... that the robot will lose access to the moment some dork with access to a mirai botnet decides to spam their servers (turnabout is fair play, right China?).
Then it'll just become an expensive traffic cone (and not a very good one, given that it isn't exactly conical).
I can't wait for the leaked video to be sped up to 2x and set to the tune Yakety Sax...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
...we'll defeat it with stairs. Or a ladder. Or an unimproved surface. Or a thick carpet. Or a piece of wood left laying on the floor. Or a doorway that's slightly too narrow.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I'm Appald Trump, and I app this app!
Apps!
How awesome will this be when it gets hijacked for service in an IoT botnet?
What could possibly go wrong?
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Hey, msmash, Why do you have that phrase set up as an anchor, but didn't include a link along with it?
So it is deployed at an airport that serves millions of people. Yet there are no videos of it anywhere. How odd.
..this isn't funny; in fact, I find it to be distinctly unfunny. Knowing China and it's human rights/civil rights record, sounds to me more like 'Human and Civil Rights Violator Robot' than anything regarding 'security', unless you want to look at in in the vein of 'security of the Chinese communist regime'. In my opinion, it's bad enough when you have humans oppressing humans, but it's an order of magnitude worse when you have a machine oppressing humans; naturally these 'bots could be ordered to do anything to anyone, up to and including killing them, and since they're not alive, have no conscience, have no emotions, they'll just do it. This is a dark day for Chinese citizens if you ask me.
This is why governments all over the world are building supercomputers faster than they can use them.
Great thinking, a police robot that can be neutered with a WiFi jammer.
"Grab them by the pussy" -- President of the United States of America
It will be trivially easy to disable China's entire army of robot enforcers.
1. Sneak into the supercomputer base. This is usually possible by jumping onto the back of a delivery truck.
2. These facilities always have air ducts connecting every room. The ducts are always well lit, and at big enough for two people to crawl through them abreast. Jump into the nearest duct, find the supercomputer, pull out the grate that is just resting on the ceiling, then jump down onto it.
3. Nobody will be in the room at first, but for excitement, you'll probably be detected about now. You still have plenty of time before they actually arrive, however. Connect whatever gadget you brought (depending on your era, it might be a 5.25" floppy, or a MacBook, or some kind of solid-state crystal). Search through menus as the guards get closer; just as they arrive, find the magic command and destroy the supercomputer's operating system. Bonus points if the hardware starts to explode.
4. Make your escape. Mission accomplished. The robots all freeze in their tracks just as they were about to execute your comrades.
Exterminate!
I have to ask because I can't help but notice http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0922/c90000-9118480.html the lettering for Police is crooked and askew and also English.
The letters of the word "police" on the front of it are crooked hahaha, this surely bodes well for whatever technology is inside it.
... that using centralized control over your army of robots was a poor design choice?
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I am the law.
No problem. Wear a bandana a sunglasses to the demonstration.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Final warning!
When the US, Europe or Japan builds a fantastically expensive new supercomputer they use it to study the high energy physics of a star or climate modeling or some other science with extreme computational needs while in China they apparently build supercomputer to link to cattle-prod bearing robots meant to monitor and control the populace.
And there are still people that think China is going to win some worldwide battle of culture.
I've just received the girlfriend version with a pocket vagina: But it still shouts "Stop resisting me".
So this is how we'll get the robot servants we were promised 90 years ago: A supercomputer in every basement.
I mean this sounds exactly like a robot they had in a story last year, doesn't it, only now with cloud scale petaflop processing capabilities.
Why it is fun for the whole company (The managers get to enjoy the buzzwords *AND* buzzers. BOFHs obviously will just enjoy the latter :))
Captcha was 'friendly'... oh yes they ARE.
Having civil rights violations implies the country has codified civil rights to BEGIN with.
See America DOES have civil rights violations, because the statesmen were foolish enough to codify what those encompassed. China neatly stepped around this issue by NOT codifying it for thousands of years, providing the right bureaucratic buffer to handle the plebs however they want without risk of violating their rights... because they have only the rights the government affords them at the time, until such time as the populace is willing to revoke their divine mandate, usually after a huge natural disaster invokes the dieties wrath upon the country's leadership for finally having shown themselves corrupt and complacent in clear cut times of civil need.
"Pick up that can"