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UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games (bbc.com)
Robots that train themselves in battle tactics by playing video games could be used to mount cyber-attacks, the UK military fears. From a report: The warning is in a Ministry of Defence report on artificial intelligence. Researchers in Silicon Valley are using strategy games, such as Starcraft II, to teach systems how to solve complex problems on their own. But artificial intelligence (AI) programs can then "be readily adapted" to wage cyber-warfare, the MoD says. Officials are particularly concerned about the ability of rogue states and terrorists to mount advanced persistent threat attacks, which can disable critical infrastructure and steal sensitive information.
But artificial intelligence (AI) programs can then "be readily adapted" to wage cyber-warfare, the MoD says. Officials are particularly concerned about the ability of rogue states and terrorists to mount advanced persistent threat attacks
How do you equate becoming good at a Real-time Strategy or Shoot-em-up game with being able to be a good hacker?
Unless the Cyber-war threat you're worried about is AIs being developed to exploit glitches in current online games such as Fortnite or PubG and rising to the top of the rankings, then I'm sure AIs that can be taught video games are pretty far away from being an AI that can be leveraged by cyberterrorists to engage in automatic "warfare"
When robots start bunny hopping, spamming grenades and talking crap after they kill someone.
Fine. Know what? There are idiots who want to ban all of us from driving, force us all into Level-5 SDCs. Fuck that, let's ban humans from war. Make it all into Battlebots but with explosives. No one need die in war again. But we shouldn't have humans fighting robots in a real-world war. Of course that's precisely what'll end up happening, won't it? We humans, we're getting dumber and dumber, aren't we? We don't LEARN.
Killer robots bunny-hopping and dolphin-diving all over the battlefield....And oh god, the spawn camping......
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Because then they'll think give-up and re-spawn is a valid option when things are going south.
Or they'll expect us to send all our weakest troops against them first and gradually send more and more powerful troops until finally- as they get close to victory against us we'll send Theresa May against them for a final boss fight. Only May will grow 50ft tall and regenerate some health between each missile that strikes her and she'll have flame throwers coming out of her arms.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
How easy would it be to install stolen military AI on a homemade battle bot (or drone)? This is what they fear.
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But we shouldn't have humans fighting robots in a real-world war. Of course that's precisely what'll end up happening, won't it?
Far more civilians than military die in modern war and we've lived 70+ years with the threat of entire cities being nuked into oblivion. If you're spending billions on a Terminator it's to kill with extreme precision, carnage is much cheaper.
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Just don't do it at all, problem solved.
You'd feel better if only your enemies use this technology ?
You do understand that a drone with a machine gun isn't supposed to be safe, don't you?
I sit here shaking my head wondering what kind of world we live in when we even have to contemplate a line like this.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
That's it. I'm selling my computer and buying a Bible because only Jesus can save us now.