AI used to mean AGI, until some people found they desperately wanted to give a false impression and invented "AGI", so they could continue to call things that have absolutely no insight or intelligence "AI".
The utterly dishonest claim that AI will eventually become AGI is just part of the scam being perpetrated here. There is no indication AGI will ever be possible and quite a few that it may not be.
Seriously, this is all old stuff, people have been notified and many accounts are not even active. Anybody that uses minimal sane security (i.e. good passwords and no reuse, just use a password-manager) are not at risk at all. Others would be at risk even without this.
"AI", what we have of it (which does really not deserve the name) cannot do better than smart humans when judgements are required. In fact, it does much worse. Stop with the quasi-religious belief in "AI"already. The only thing automation (which is all we have) can do is make standardized decisions that are significantly worse than those of a smart human, but do so much faster and much cheaper. For many things, this is enough. But it does in no way allow a better quality of the decisions or new insights.
You seem to be completely unaware of wired networks and WiFi. Phone services are different because of accounting and being metered. Anonymous SIM cards are still available, because the push to outlaw them was basically a worthless political stunt, nothing else. That said, phone services could maybe be locked down completely. But ordinary networking likely cannot.
No reason to believe in anything. Just recognize that Physics is incomplete and has no explanation today for consciousness and potentially for intelligence. Also, even if it is a purely physical mechanism, it may still be impossible practically to reproduce in any other way than the biological one.
This is what happens when you ship all your manufacturing overseas for 40 years and suddenly expect manufacturing to ramp up overnight after 40 years of neglect.
And that is the key problem. The west has not kept up and has gotten fat and lazy. A classical example of how the mighty have fallen. And sad to see, because the west was really far ahead and would just have to keep at it.
Besides that, the Chinese are just better manufacturers due to accumulated factors of production. It's more-efficient for regions to specialize and trade.
For everything that is not too high-tech and novel, most definitely. They invested heavily into that area while (among others) the US did not care. Hence they are now ahead. Wages play a pretty small role in this.
That is not the issue here. Cost of the screw (as long as not excessive) was _not_ a factor. Availability was. And all available manufacturers in the US did not have the capability and flexibility. This is a sign of an "old" economy that has not kept up.
The frustrating thing is that the software support for the decent boards does not exist precisely because the Raspberry Pi exists.
And there we have one thing that has me pissed at the RPi people: They channeled a lot of energy and enthusiasm into a mediocre product. But things are getting better.
That will not be happening, unless the Japan government starts to do systematic pen-tests against all their domestic devices and networks. While that would be indeed a good thing, it is infeasible today because the effort is just too large.
No. The only way to get rid of the IoT mess is manufacturer and vendor liability and that one has to be done internationally. In effect, sales of this insecure crap must be banned, stock must be seized and marketplaces like eBay and Amazon must be made liable if they continue to sell them after they have been found insecure. Product evaluation likely will have to be done after the fact (i.e. the thing is already being sold) and with taxpayer money, but that is a small price to pay.
Or rather it will make the situation worse, as the next marketplace to replace this one will just have better security. The way to fight this is improving server security, nothing else will help.
There is zero reason to compromise a camera chip. The interface is just not suitable for any kind of attack against the main system. But the whole "spying" thing is a big, fat lie anyways, purely motivated by economic arguments. As the US falls more and more behind, it turns out that it only wants to compete in an open market as long as it is ahead.
Or rather it is, but only as a commercial competitor. Those that cannot compete in fair market will often try anything. Kind of funny to see this happening in the US where the "free market" is a huge fetish. The whole "spying" thing is a big fat smokescreen.
You seem to never have heard about things like UPnP, for example and firewalls with states. A device could well be set up to be open to accesses from Japan, but after such an access remains open to the rest of the world for a time. This is a very simplified scenario, of course, but I am sure even that already flies right over your head.
Since bot-nets compete for targets, the few users that notice they cannot log in anymore will be an acceptable loss. The bot-net must defend what it has successfully integrated in order to work. Also, a bot-net must make sure it does not compromise devices multiple times (or it becomes so inefficient as to become ineffective, this has been observed in the past) and the best way to do that is to close the attack vector. Keeping state (list of members) does not work for that purpose in large bot-nets, synchronization would take too long among other problems. In addition, many IoT devices are set-up so that the web-interface / app-interface uses a different password than the telnet access and most users will use the web-interface.
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AI used to mean AGI, until some people found they desperately wanted to give a false impression and invented "AGI", so they could continue to call things that have absolutely no insight or intelligence "AI".
The utterly dishonest claim that AI will eventually become AGI is just part of the scam being perpetrated here. There is no indication AGI will ever be possible and quite a few that it may not be.
Patent-count is not a measure of leadership. It is a measure of ego, greed and lack of ethics. In that, China may indeed have overtaken the US.
Well, I know some people at the HPI. I guess the leadership there sees a chance to get publicity and hence they are hyping this all out of proportion.
Seriously, this is all old stuff, people have been notified and many accounts are not even active. Anybody that uses minimal sane security (i.e. good passwords and no reuse, just use a password-manager) are not at risk at all. Others would be at risk even without this.
Indeed. I specifically have one with a removable battery for that purpose. And yes, in some meetings, I do remove that battery.
"AI", what we have of it (which does really not deserve the name) cannot do better than smart humans when judgements are required. In fact, it does much worse. Stop with the quasi-religious belief in "AI"already. The only thing automation (which is all we have) can do is make standardized decisions that are significantly worse than those of a smart human, but do so much faster and much cheaper. For many things, this is enough. But it does in no way allow a better quality of the decisions or new insights.
Well, MS messing up is sort of expected. So I would classify that under "Karma" for anybody relying on them.
You seem to be completely unaware of wired networks and WiFi. Phone services are different because of accounting and being metered. Anonymous SIM cards are still available, because the push to outlaw them was basically a worthless political stunt, nothing else. That said, phone services could maybe be locked down completely. But ordinary networking likely cannot.
No reason to believe in anything. Just recognize that Physics is incomplete and has no explanation today for consciousness and potentially for intelligence. Also, even if it is a purely physical mechanism, it may still be impossible practically to reproduce in any other way than the biological one.
Don't think this is possible, hence not something that can go wrong. However, if it is possible, it will probably be the biggest mess ever.
The Dumb is hard at work to get us the capability back to sterilize the planet by accident.
While I agree that the authoritarian scum that is getting into power (again) want this desperately, I doubt it is possible.
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This is what happens when you ship all your manufacturing overseas for 40 years and suddenly expect manufacturing to ramp up overnight after 40 years of neglect.
And that is the key problem. The west has not kept up and has gotten fat and lazy. A classical example of how the mighty have fallen. And sad to see, because the west was really far ahead and would just have to keep at it.
Besides that, the Chinese are just better manufacturers due to accumulated factors of production. It's more-efficient for regions to specialize and trade.
For everything that is not too high-tech and novel, most definitely. They invested heavily into that area while (among others) the US did not care. Hence they are now ahead. Wages play a pretty small role in this.
That is not the issue here. Cost of the screw (as long as not excessive) was _not_ a factor. Availability was. And all available manufacturers in the US did not have the capability and flexibility. This is a sign of an "old" economy that has not kept up.
The frustrating thing is that the software support for the decent boards does not exist precisely because the Raspberry Pi exists.
And there we have one thing that has me pissed at the RPi people: They channeled a lot of energy and enthusiasm into a mediocre product. But things are getting better.
Read up on them. I am not doing your homework.
That will not be happening, unless the Japan government starts to do systematic pen-tests against all their domestic devices and networks. While that would be indeed a good thing, it is infeasible today because the effort is just too large.
No. The only way to get rid of the IoT mess is manufacturer and vendor liability and that one has to be done internationally. In effect, sales of this insecure crap must be banned, stock must be seized and marketplaces like eBay and Amazon must be made liable if they continue to sell them after they have been found insecure. Product evaluation likely will have to be done after the fact (i.e. the thing is already being sold) and with taxpayer money, but that is a small price to pay.
Or rather it will make the situation worse, as the next marketplace to replace this one will just have better security. The way to fight this is improving server security, nothing else will help.
There is zero reason to compromise a camera chip. The interface is just not suitable for any kind of attack against the main system. But the whole "spying" thing is a big, fat lie anyways, purely motivated by economic arguments. As the US falls more and more behind, it turns out that it only wants to compete in an open market as long as it is ahead.
Or rather it is, but only as a commercial competitor. Those that cannot compete in fair market will often try anything. Kind of funny to see this happening in the US where the "free market" is a huge fetish. The whole "spying" thing is a big fat smokescreen.
You seem to never have heard about things like UPnP, for example and firewalls with states. A device could well be set up to be open to accesses from Japan, but after such an access remains open to the rest of the world for a time. This is a very simplified scenario, of course, but I am sure even that already flies right over your head.
This /. story from yestersay may be relevant for you though: https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Since bot-nets compete for targets, the few users that notice they cannot log in anymore will be an acceptable loss. The bot-net must defend what it has successfully integrated in order to work. Also, a bot-net must make sure it does not compromise devices multiple times (or it becomes so inefficient as to become ineffective, this has been observed in the past) and the best way to do that is to close the attack vector. Keeping state (list of members) does not work for that purpose in large bot-nets, synchronization would take too long among other problems. In addition, many IoT devices are set-up so that the web-interface / app-interface uses a different password than the telnet access and most users will use the web-interface.
Ah, well. I see you are not accessible for rational argument. I will stop responding now.