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China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com)
A group of some of China's smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world's youngest AI weapons scientists. Local media reports: The 27 boys and four girls, all aged 18 and under, were selected for the four-year "experimental programme for intelligent weapons systems" at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) from more than 5,000 candidates, the school said on its website. The BIT is one of the country's top weapons research institutes, and the launch of the new programme is evidence of the weight it places on the development of AI technology for military use. China is in competition with the United States and other nations in the race to develop deadly AI applications -- from nuclear submarines with self-learning chips to microscopic robots that can crawl into human blood vessels.
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Shit editors don't even check the last 10 stories to make sure what they are posting doesn't already have 100+ comments ON THE FRONT PAGE.
Sort of an Ender's Game ...
Are we not waiting until it's off the main page before posting dupes anymore?
Dupes were better back before dicedot. #cowboyneal
Workers at tech companies refuse to help their country defend themselves against these advancements because of a knee-jerk reaction of hating the military.
Defend? Yeah, OK. Much like the nuclear arms race, we both know damn well the only good defense is a good offense, so you can put down the patriotic paintbrush. There's no innocent picture to paint here on either side.
Developing killer AI weapons isn't exactly a race to the bottom that many want to participate in, even the most patriotic. Many are still sitting on the sidelines in disbelief wondering if we should ever cross that damn line, because intelligent people know what this shit leads to. And we don't hate the military (we've come a LONG way from Vietnam). What people hate is when the military is manipulated for unjust reasons, which often results in unnecessary violence and death.
Hmm can see this on the front page already :)
Slashdot has been hiring all the most intellectual children to help staff their editorial roles and make sure duplicates don't get posted to the front page... so you must be wrong.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Delete this or merge it.
It's bad enough that almost every article is fucking clickbait to begin with, we don't need duplicate clickbait articles. Seriously this place is going to shit.
I tend to rant.
Well done! Of the 26 comments posted so far, yours is the only one that addresses the story and contributes intelligent insights.
Slashdot badly needs a button that takes you past the however-many-dozen irrelevant comments to the first ones that are worth reading. Attention is THE scarce resource.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Don't pretend the left likes Session. He's a horrible person. But at least he has just enough integrity not to interfere with the investigation. Whoever Trump is going to replace him with, is probably not going to have such scruples. The people aren't protesting the firing of a wannabe-Hitler, they're protesting the obstruction of justice that's certain to follow.
One thing that I think is going to make China the dominant global power in the mid-to-late 21st century -- besides a massive population advantage -- is their government structure. If they want a cyber-weapons program, that's what they'll get.
Like it or not, the way things are set up now in China is incredibly efficient. Anywhere else, there would be years of debate over any decision. With both economic and political control, decisions that just can't be made anywhere else are simply made by decree and done. Having control over companies lets the central government choose what industries get attention and which get less, as well as react immediately to outside influences. An example would be the massive amount of infrastructure spending that simply materialized to stave off the effects of the 2008 GFC, or their plans to re-colonize Africa via economic means this time.
I don't think most Westerners would want to live under such a system, but it's incredibly good at allocating resources and turning sharply to face challenges. It doesn't matter whether a decision is unpopular...that's the decision and that's it.
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Slashdot badly needs a button that takes you past the however-many-dozen irrelevant comments to the first ones that are worth reading. Attention is THE scarce resource.
Interesting. Could be a candidate for machine learning and NLP.
Seems tough though, how could an AI ever realize that the one line comment "Sort of an Ender's Game ..." is on topic and interesting without an understanding of the book?
Would seem to almost require a human level intelligence!
Certainly this is not unique to China or a new practice to recruit from schools for armies around the world. What then is the purpose of this pair of stories, one overrun by trolls, and this one vaguely repeating some of the usual xenophobic fears? One was an accidental honey trap that will allows tracking influence networks on Slashdot, and this one fits into the old tapestry of fear-based propaganda.
And they intend to be the ones to release the nanobots to kill everyone except dear leader for life.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
China's Smartest Students Are Being Recruited To Check Slashdot For Dupes.
-k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I'm "Hitler-like" for wanting justice done? You make no sense.
I want all these fascists out. Replacing one with another isn't going to fix anything.
"Literally Hitler"? Are you really that kind of person?
I want justice done. Nobody believes that Trump is firing Sessions because of his horrible child separation policy, and Trump and many of his supporters have defended that policy. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he his firing Sessions for the one single good thing Sessions has done: allowing an independent investigation to continue. If you do not think that the next step is going to be the appointment of an AG who will help Trump in obstructing justice, you are a fool.