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« Reply #400 on: July 27, 2020, 03:28:50 PM »
blumenkraft, I get video unavailable when I click that link.

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« Reply #401 on: July 27, 2020, 03:31:14 PM »
Try this link, Tom >>

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« Reply #402 on: July 27, 2020, 05:06:34 PM »
Yes the alternate address works



https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach/

OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
03:14 – Reverse engineering Joscha Bach
10:38 – Nature of truth
18:47 – Original thinking
23:14 – Sentience vs intelligence
31:45 – Mind vs Reality
46:51 – Hard problem of consciousness
51:09 – Connection between the mind and the universe
56:29 – What is consciousness
1:02:32 – Language and concepts
1:09:02 – Meta-learning
1:16:35 – Spirit
1:18:10 – Our civilization may not exist for long
1:37:48 – Twitter and social media
1:44:52 – What systems of government might work well?
1:47:12 – The way out of self-destruction with AI
1:55:18 – AI simulating humans to understand its own nature
2:04:32 – Reinforcement learning
2:09:12 – Commonsense reasoning
2:15:47 – Would AGI need to have a body?
2:22:34 – Neuralink
2:27:01 – Reasoning at the scale of neurons and societies
2:37:16 – Role of emotion
2:48:03 – Happiness is a cookie that your brain bakes for itself
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« Reply #403 on: July 27, 2020, 07:32:50 PM »


The trailer opens with a TED-like talk by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Paul LeBlanc (Slattery) warning of the dangers of human-level AI. Cut to an Alexa-like AI assistant, Eliza, carrying on a conversation with a young boy. "Eliza doesn't ask questions, she just answers them," the boy's father says, but in this case, he's wrong. LeBlanc's rantings sound increasingly paranoid, as we see nods to facial recognition, self-driving cars, and various electronic systems (including medical devices) that all seem to come under the control of a new AI called NeXT that isn't as benign as its creators assume. Honestly, it reminds me of the 1993 The X-Files episode "Ghost in the Machine"—especially the death-by-elevator scene—only with more overt espionage elements.
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« Reply #404 on: July 27, 2020, 07:50:33 PM »
vox_mundi, the same thing happens with that link, sorry.

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« Reply #405 on: July 27, 2020, 08:03:13 PM »
This one should do, Tom. >>

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« Reply #406 on: July 28, 2020, 12:11:06 AM »
That was just a two or three minute trailer...is that what you wanted?

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Re: Robots and AI: Our Immortality or Extinction
« Reply #407 on: July 29, 2020, 09:33:39 PM »
Remotely Operated Robot Takes Straight Razor to Face of Brave Roboticist
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/remotely-operated-robot-takes-straight-razor-to-face-of-brave-roboticist


Jump to 23:30.

Roboticists love hard problems. Challenges like the DRC and SubT have helped (and are still helping) to catalyze major advances in robotics, but not all hard problems require a massive amount of DARPA funding—sometimes, a hard problem can just be something very specific that’s really hard for a robot to do, especially relative to the ease with which a moderately trained human might be able to do it. Catching a ball. Putting a peg in a hole. Or using a straight razor to shave someone’s face without Sweeney Todd-izing them.

... Now, a straight razor is sort of like a safety razor, except with the safety part removed, which in fact does make it significantly less safe for humans, much less robots. Also not ideal for those worried about safety is that as part of the process the razor ends up in distressingly close proximity to things like the artery that is busily delivering your brain’s entire supply of blood, which is very close to the top of the list of things that most people want to keep blades very far away from.

But that didn’t stop Whitney from putting his whiskers where his mouth is and letting his robotic system mediate the ministrations of a professional barber. It’s not an autonomous robotic straight-razor shave (because Whitney is not totally crazy), but it’s a step in that direction, and requires that the hardware Whitney developed be dead reliable.

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« Reply #408 on: July 30, 2020, 06:43:25 AM »
New Israeli Tank Features Xbox Controllers, AI Honed by ‘StarCraft II’ and ‘Doom’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/28/new-israeli-tank-features-xbox-controllers-ai-honed-by-starcraft-ii-doom/

The Carmel armored fighting vehicle (AFV) prototype was created by Israeli Aerospace Industries a part of the Israeli military’s three-year-old Carmel program, which seeks to develop a new concept for armor built around a two-person crew, a “fighter jet-like” cockpit, hybrid propulsion and autonomous capabilities such that, “the soldiers are only required to make decisions that the mechanism cannot (yet) make by itself,” according to a statement from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

The Israeli armor prototype was designed with a specific user experience in mind for the Israeli Defense Force’s active-duty element, which is typically men and women age 18 to 21. Any teen or 20-something who enters the hatch of the Carmel will likely feel familiar with the environment, thanks to video games.

It’s dark in the windowless Carmel, but you can see outside via a panoramic screen. It has tablet-like devices that allow operators to set the vehicle’s speed and change weapons. The side of the screen features up-to-date intelligence information. And controlling the steering, weapons systems and all manner of other operations is a friendly and familiar Microsoft Xbox controller.

The similarity is no accident. To develop their Carmel model, one of three models under consideration to become the IDF’s next armored fighting vehicle, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) engineers and managers worked with teenage gamers who critiqued the system, which originally came equipped with a state of the art fighter jet-like joystick. If approved, the new weapons platform would be operated by the dual thumbsticks, triggers, bumpers and buttons of a video game handset.

... IAI used design principles from video games as well, using familiar icons and layouts to display information. The screens contain much of the same info one would find when playing “Fortnite” or “Apex Legends,” including a map, a tally of ammo stores and a list of available weapons. It’s also displayed in a way one would expect to see while dropping into “Call of Duty Warzone,” with relevant information framing the crew’s view. Of course, here, the screen displays the reality outside — with live targets and real weapons.



... The video game functionality in the IAI model is not just focused on the user interface. The urban combat-focused vehicle has artificial intelligence that was trained mostly using the game “StarCraft II” and was integrated into the tank with the Unity game engine and VBS platform.

The AI system integrates weapon selections based on myriad circumstances, he said, giving the example that it would not present the operator with a missile option to respond to a single enemy shooting a rifle from a populated area.
... or maybe it would.

“StarCraft II,” a 10-year-old real time strategy game, is highly regarded by engineers in the AI field, according to Google’s DeepMind Technologies, which last year created AI that defeated a pro StarCraft player. In a post, the company cited “StarCraft II” as an ideal AI trainer due to its constantly changing, real-time, competitive situations, the long duration of matches, incomplete information for players, and a vast playing space that has hundreds of variables.

The AI system for Carmel was reinforced and trained using thousands of scenarios that the technology generates, according to Moshe Beutel, 44, who leads the algorithm group. One of the ways the team developed this technology was by grinding “StarCraft II,” mixed in with a few other games such as “Doom,” to teach the AI different strategies for navigation, target detection, weapon selection and other autonomous capabilities. He and his team also wrote what he called “reinforcement agents,” but which gamers call “bots,” to beat the games.

After only two weeks, Beutel said that his bots performed 20 to 30 percent better than humans in figuring out how to get from point A to point B while fighting several enemies. He defined “better” as “getting to the end point without getting hurt.”

IAI’s Carmel entry presents a vehicle capable of fully autonomous, semiautonomous, and manual driving modes. It can also automatically engage in target acquisition and weapon selection, though [currently] weapon deployment requires a human action.

Critics of the intersection of gaming and war have pointed to the potential desensitizing effect that games could introduce to an arena with lethal consequences.

... There has also been ethical scrutiny on the subject. United States drone pilots and other observers have likened piloting the unmanned crafts to playing a video game, and a 2012 documentary by The Guardian noted military efforts to recruit pilots from gaming conventions. More recently the U.S. Army’s official video gaming team began streaming on Twitch as part of a recruiting effort that resulted in criticism and claims of first amendment violations when members of the chat were banned from the stream for referencing wartime atrocities. (Twitch is owned by Amazon, whose CEO, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washington Post.)

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Alexa With Firepower: Army Research Enables Conversational AI Between Soldiers, Robots
https://www.army.mil/article/237580/army_research_enables_conversational_ai_between_soldiers_robots

Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, developed the Joint Understanding and Dialogue Interface, or JUDI, capability, which enables bi-directional conversational interactions between Soldiers and autonomous systems.

This effort supports the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Army Modernization Priority and the Army Priority Research Area for Autonomy through reduction of Soldier burden when teaming with autonomous systems and by allowing verbal command and control of systems

... “This technology enables a Soldier to interact with autonomous systems through bidirectional speech and dialogue in tactical operations where verbal task instructions can be used for command and control of a mobile robot. In turn, the technology gives the robot the ability to ask for clarification or provide status updates as tasks are completed. Instead of relying on pre-specified, and possibly outdated, information about a mission, dialogue enables these systems to supplement their understanding of the world by conversing with human teammates.”

... The goal, he said, is to shift the paradigm of Soldier-robot interaction from today’s heads-down, hands-full joystick operation of robots to a heads-up, hands-free mode of interaction where a Soldier can team with one or more robots while maintaining situational awareness of their surroundings.

According to the researchers, JUDI is distinct from current similar research conducted in the commercial realm.

“Commercial industry has largely focused on intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Alexa – systems that can retrieve factual knowledge and perform specialized tasks like setting reminders, but do not reason over the immediate physical surroundings"

In contrast, Marge said, JUDI is designed for tasks that require reasoning in the physical world, where data is sparse because it requires previous human-robot interaction and there is little to no reliable cloud-connectivity. Current intelligent personal assistants may rely on thousands of training examples, while JUDI can be tailored to a task with only hundreds, an order of magnitude smaller.

Moreover, he said, JUDI is a dialogue system adapted to autonomous systems like robots, allowing it to access multiple sources of context, like Soldier speech and the robot’s perception system, to help in collaborative decision-making.

JUDI will be integrated into the CCDC ARL Autonomy Stack, a suite of software algorithms, libraries and software components that perform specific functions that are required by intelligent systems such as navigation, planning, perception, control and reasoning, which was developed under the decade-long Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance.

Successful innovations in the stack are also rolled into the CCDC Ground Vehicle System Center’s Robotics Technology Kernel.

... “Once ARL develops a new capability that is built into the autonomy software stack, it is spiraled into GVSC’s Robotics Technology Kernel where it goes through extensive testing and hardening and is used in programs such as the Combat Vehicle Robotics, or CoVeR, program,” said Dr. John Fossaceca, AIMM ERP program manager. “Ultimately, this will end up as Army owned intellectual property that will be shared with industry partners as a common architecture to ensure that Next Generation Combat Vehicles are based on best of breed technologies with modular interfaces.”

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Mind-Controlled Drones and Robots: How Thought-Reading Tech Will Change the Face of Warfare
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mind-reading-particles-for-the-military-the-bcis-that-enable-soliders-to-fly-planes-with-their-thoughts-alone/

DARPA is funding a number of brain-computer interface projects to enable soliders to control equipment at the speed of thought.

"DARPA is preparing for a future in which a combination of unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and cyber operations may cause conflicts to play out on timelines that are too short for humans to effectively manage with current technology alone," said Al Emondi, the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program manager last year, when funding for six projects was announced: "By creating a more accessible brain-machine interface that doesn't require surgery to use, DARPA could deliver tools that allow mission commanders to remain meaningfully involved in dynamic operations that unfold at rapid speed."

https://www.battelle.org/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-detail/battelle-led-team-wins-darpa-award-to-develop-injectable-bi-directional-brain-computer-interface

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« Reply #409 on: August 05, 2020, 08:02:58 PM »
My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

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I would write the title and introduction, add a photo, and let GPT-3 do the rest. The blog has had over 26 thousand visitors, and we now have about 60 loyal subscribers...

And only ONE PERSON has noticed it was written by GPT-3.

Link >> https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors

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« Reply #410 on: August 05, 2020, 09:30:43 PM »
So to summarize most humans are too stupid for the Turing test?
Þetta minnismerki er til vitnis um að við vitum hvað er að gerast og hvað þarf að gera. Aðeins þú veist hvort við gerðum eitthvað.

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« Reply #411 on: August 05, 2020, 09:36:51 PM »
LOL  ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #412 on: August 15, 2020, 09:48:32 PM »
Robot Boat Completes Three-Week Atlantic Mission
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53787546

A UK boat has just provided an impressive demonstration of the future of robotic maritime operations.

The 12m Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer has completed a 22-day-long mission to map an area of seafloor in the Atlantic.

SEA-KIT International, which developed the craft, "skippered" the entire outing via satellite from its base in Tollesbury in eastern England.

Already, many of the big survey companies that run traditional crewed vessels have started to invest heavily in the new, remotely operated technologies. Freight companies are also acknowledging the cost advantages that will come from running robot ships.

But "over-the-horizon" control has to show it's practical and safe if it's to gain wide acceptance. Hence, the demonstration from Maxlimer.

... The USV Maxlimer was originally developed for - and won - the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.

This was a competition to find the next-generation technologies that could be used to map the global ocean floor. Four-fifths of the sea bottom have yet to be surveyed to an acceptable resolution. Robotic solutions will be essential if we're to have any chance of closing the knowledge gap.

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« Reply #413 on: August 16, 2020, 09:43:01 AM »
A Human F-16 Pilot Will Fight Against AI In An Upcoming Dogfight
https://www.airforcetimes.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/07/a-human-f-16-pilot-will-fight-against-ai-in-an-upcoming-contest/
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2020/08/07/F-16-pilots-to-face-off-against-AI-in-simulated-dogfight-for-DARPA/6601596827584/

WASHINGTON ― An artificial intelligence algorithm will face off against a human F-16 fighter pilot in an aerial combat simulation in late August, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Aug. 7.

The simulation — the third and final competition in DARPA’s AlphaDogfight Trials — will take place Aug. 20. During the event, AI algorithms from eight teams will engage in "simulated within-visual-range air combat maneuvering, colloquially known as a dogfight," DARPA said in a recent press release

Last year, DARPA noted that while AI can beat human beings in games like chess, there is no AI in existence that "can outduel a human strapped into a fighter jet in a high-speed, high-G dogfight," but the agency is trying to change that, or at least move the ball forward.

The AlphaDogfight Trials was created to demonstrate advanced AI systems’ ability in air warfare. The competition is also part of DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution, or ACE, program, which was started in 2019, and seeks to automate air-to-air combat as well as improve human trust in AI systems to bolster human-machine teaming.

“We are still excited to see how the AI algorithms perform against each other as well as a Weapons School-trained human and hope that fighter pilots from across the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as military leaders and members of the AI tech community will register and watch online. It’s been amazing to see how far the teams have advanced AI for autonomous dogfighting in less than a year.”

On the first day of the competition, the teams will fly their respective algorithms against five AI systems developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Teams will face off against each other in a round-robin tournament on the second day, with the third day featuring the top four teams competing in a single-elimination tournament for the championship. The winner will then fly against a human pilot.

“Regardless of whether the human or machine wins the final dogfight, the AlphaDogfight Trials is all about increasing trust in AI,” Javorsek said. “If the champion AI earns the respect of an F-16 pilot, we’ll have come one step closer to achieving effective human-machine teaming in air combat, which is the goal of the ACE program.”

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« Reply #414 on: August 16, 2020, 04:36:08 PM »
Nearly every company across every industry is looking for new ways to minimize human contact, cut costs and address the labor crunch in repetitive and dangerous jobs. WSJ explores why many are looking to robots as the solution for all three.



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Horrific AI Surveillance Experiment Uses Convicted Felons as Human Guinea Pigs
https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/08/14/horrific-ai-surveillance-experiment-uses-convicted-felons-as-human-guinea-pigs/

According to a Purdue press release titled “Artificial intelligence examines best ways to keep parolees from recommitting crimes,” the duo intends to outfit 125 released felons with wearable devices that will collect myriad data:

Artificial intelligence will give researchers a window into the parolee’s daily life through bracelets that collect health information, including stress and heart rate.

Smart phones carried by each person also will collect information, ranging from where they are at any given time to the photos they may take.


https://phys.org/news/2020-08-artificial-intelligence-ways-parolees-recommitting.html

The study will last four years, with the devices worn during the third, and an additional 125 parolees will be included as an unmonitored control group.

University of Washington AI researcher Os Keyes takes issue with the study’s premise, noting that the reasons for high recidivism are already well-understood. Many parolees, for example, are required to maintain housing and employment during their parole period. “When low-income housing prohibits parolees, even parolees as guests or housemates, when there’s a longstanding series of legal and practical forms of discrimination against parolees for employment, when there is social stigma against people with criminal convictions, and when you have to go in once a week to get checked and tagged like a chunk of meat — you’re not welcome.”

Keyes argues this sort of monitoring reinforces “dangerous ideas” by presuming a lack of bodily autonomy and self-control and overlooking the individualized and internal nature of recidivism. Moreover, it is premised on paternalism, rendering convicts’ parole status even more precarious, he says.


... The prospect of participating in a government study from a prestigious university could be seen as a positive step towards eventual freedom from the justice system. This incentive, when offered to vulnerable members of society who might not understand the value of their privacy and data, makes this study appear predatory.

The researchers’ claim appears to be that the system is designed to identify warning signs of recidivism so that, in the future, early interventions can be developed. This is horrifying. Either the researchers are claiming they’re getting myriad data on people just so they can attempt to answer the basic question of “what makes criminals do crimes,” or they’re claiming that this system will help develop targeted interventions.

What the hell would that look like? An Android notification? Little shocks through a wearable?
Installing an off switch inside their brains? Having a therapist call the parolee whenever their blood pressure goes up? Auto-dialing 911 whenever they get mad?

No matter how obscure the perceived benefits are, the dangers are crystal clear. That level of surveillance is far beyond the pale. The very fact that this study exists will normalize the use of surveillance as a government and academic tool.



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“Examining Users’ Attitude Towards Robot Punishment.”



... b-but it worked so well with the slaves.

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« Reply #415 on: August 20, 2020, 06:33:04 PM »


AI vs Human Live
AlphaDogfight Trials Final Event
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« Reply #416 on: August 21, 2020, 12:32:36 AM »
An AI Just Beat a Human F-16 Pilot In a Dogfight — Again
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/ai-just-beat-human-f-16-pilot-dogfight-again/167872/

The never-ending saga of machines outperforming humans has a new chapter. An AI algorithm has again beaten a human fighter pilot in a virtual dogfight. The contest was the finale of the U.S. military’s AlphaDogfight challenge, an effort to “demonstrate the feasibility of developing effective, intelligent autonomous agents capable of defeating adversary aircraft in a dogfight."

Last August, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA,  selected eight teams ranging from large, traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin to small groups like Heron Systems to compete in a series of trials in November and January. In the final, on Thursday, Heron Systems emerged as the victor against the seven other teams after two days of old school dogfights, going after each other using nose-aimed guns only. Heron then faced off against a human fighter pilot sitting in a simulator and wearing a virtual reality helmet, and won five rounds to zero.

By the fifth and final round of the matchup, the anonymous human pilot, call-sign Banger, was able to significantly shift his tactics and last much longer. "The standard things that we do as fighter pilots aren't working," he said. It didn’t matter in the end. He hadn’t learned fast enough and was defeated.



Deep reinforcement played a key role in Heron System’s agent, as well as Lockheed Martin’s, the second runner up.

Ultimately, it’s no contest how quickly an AI can learn — within a defined area of effort —  because it can repeat the lesson anew over and over, on multiple machines.

Lockheed, like several other teams, had a fighter pilot advising the effort. They also were able to run training sets on up to 25 DGx1 servers at a time. But what they ultimately produced could run a single GPU chip.

It’s not the first time that an AI has bested a human fighter pilot in a contest. A 2016 demonstration showed that an AI-agent dubbed Alpha could beat an experienced human combat flight instructor. But the DARPA simulation on Thursday was arguably more significant as it pitched a variety of AI agents against one another and then against a human in a highly structured framework.
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« Reply #417 on: August 21, 2020, 12:54:43 AM »
DARPA Wants Wargame AI To Never Fight Fair
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/darpa-wants-wargame-ai-to-never-fight-fair/



ALBUQUERQUE: Northrop Grumman is building an AI designed to find new strategies to break virtual opponents. Future AI tools, based on this research, could help human commanders break opponents in real battles.

The contract is part of DARPA’s Gamebreaker program, which wants to turn the design considerations of modern strategy games on their head, using AI to find every unfair advantage hidden in the game.

“Gamebreaker seeks a methodology for finding “broken states” in games – situations in which one player in the game can gain unexpected advantages over a competitor,” Joshua Bernstein, director of advanced intelligent systems at Northrop Grumman, says. “In these applications AI finds asymmetrical conditions in a system (eg, the game or a real-world scenario) and communicates these conditions to stakeholders, such as military planners.”

Gamebreaker, part of DARPA’s larger initiative in military AI, is about winning Real Time Strategy games. Combining entertainment with simulation, these games seek to foster both fun and a balanced, competitive experience, one where each player stands a reasonable chance of winning.

This is directly at odds with actual war, where the smoothest path to victory is maximizing every unfair advantage a side can muster against a rival.

To succeed at breaking this balance, teams must build an AI that can play a strategy game, and then, while staying within the rules of the game, figure out how to use all the available pieces in the best and most unfair way against its opponents. It is about novel tactics, without any of the limitations of human understanding holding back how the algorithm plots a path to victory.



... Unfair advantage? Hopefully, it will not discover nuclear weapons
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Re: Robots and AI: Our Immortality or Extinction
« Reply #418 on: August 21, 2020, 11:05:05 AM »
So many ways robots & AI are being developed to maximise economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the pursuit of destruction and death.

Just another thread in the fabric that suggests to me it is time to put humanity on suicide watch.

ps: It is said that man has never yet developed a weapon that hasn't been used in anger.
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« Reply #419 on: August 21, 2020, 01:34:21 PM »
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ps: It is said that man has never yet developed a weapon that hasn't been used in anger.
The Hydrogen bomb? VX?

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« Reply #420 on: August 21, 2020, 05:26:31 PM »
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The Hydrogen bomb? VX?
The H-bomb is just the A-bomb on steroids.

It is possible that VX or other nerve agents were used in chemical warfare during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
Facts About VX - CDCemergency.cdc.gov › agent › vx › basics › facts
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« Reply #421 on: August 21, 2020, 06:29:07 PM »
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An AI Just Beat a Human F-16 Pilot In a Dogfight — Again

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The AlphaDogfight Trials have concluded! Congratulations to Heron Systems whose AI agent won the championship among the systems competitors and then beat our F-16 pilot in five straight simulated dogfights in the man-vs-machine finale. ...

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8/20/20, 6:10 PM
@DARPA  Uh oh
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1296570255297220609
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« Reply #422 on: August 21, 2020, 10:44:31 PM »
DARPA Trains AI To Understand Humans – In Minecraft
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/darpa-trains-ai-to-understand-humans-in-minecraft/

ALBUQUERQUE — Before artificial intelligence wields weapons in real-world battle, the Pentagon needs to test its AIs in virtual environments. That’s why DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue-sky projects agency, is developing an AI that can communicate with humans in games, as well as manage and understand the peculiarities of a human team in action.

See, central to the US military’s enthusiastic embrace of artificial intelligence is the idea that AI and robotics can never replace human troops, but they can work with them in a human-machine team that is much more than the sum of its parts.

The military envisions armed drones that fly alongside manned fighters as expendable “loyal wingmen” or scout ahead of human soldiers, AI targeting systems that line up shots for human gunners, and a host of virtual staff officers that do the organizational grunt work on everything from maintenance schedules to strike planning. And AI will be essential to coordinate the staggering complexity of future Joint All-Domain Operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyberpspace.

... The goal is to find a way for humans to communicate information to an AI agent that the AI itself might not have, perhaps because it lacks the sensors to perceive it, perhaps simply because it’s in a different place. Likewise, said Fouse, the AI needs to be able to “communicate back to humans in ways that are efficient and useful, so they can understand at a glance kind of the insights of the AI.”

... How might ADAPT manage human-AI teams? For example, Fouse said, “we know that Joe over there always tries to go as far into buildings as possible, to start in, no matter what he’s told. There’s part of the team tasks that says, ‘Well, we need someone to do that. Let’s give that task to Joe.”

If the AI can anticipate human action, and plan accordingly, in the virtual environment, then that AI could become a valuable battlefield aid for a commander. With technologies built upon ADAPT in hand, it would allow human commanders to better understand how a team of humans and, eventually, robots are best equipped for a task, and plan accordingly. [... how, best, to use 'cannon fodder']

... The more an AI can function as a sort of personal assistant for combat, the less time commanders have to spend on minutia. [...like weighing the value of a human life]
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« Reply #423 on: August 22, 2020, 06:15:14 PM »


ROS = Robot Operating System
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« Reply #424 on: August 22, 2020, 07:15:51 PM »
Panopticon: Facebook Wants to Help Build AI That Can Remember Everything for You [... and About You]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebook-wants-to-help-build-ai-that-can-remember-everything-for-you/ar-BB18g9R0



... Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer, hopes this work, though early stage, could eventually power products like a pair of smart glasses to help you remember everything from where you left your keys to whether you already added vanilla to a bowl of cookie dough. In short, he wants to perfect AI that can perfect your own memory. [... all you have to do is surrender your privacy]

... But Schroepfer's goal could depend on the company convincing people to trust Facebook to develop technology that may become deeply embedded in their personal lives — no small feat after years of privacy controversies and concerns about how much personal information the social network already has from its users.

And in order to turn these AI systems into the sort of memory machine Schroepfer envisions, you would have to wear a pair of sensor-laden augmented-reality glasses, which have so far struggled to gain much traction. Facebook, like other tech companies including Snap and reportedly Apple, is working on AR glasses.

... Facebook's latest AI research builds upon an existing open-source environment simulator that the company introduced in 2019 called AI Habitat, which is meant to enable AI researchers to quickly train AI systems in realistic-looking digital replicas of real spaces, like a kitchen or living room.

Over time, this kind of AI research could be used for robotic assistants, which are still in the early stages of understanding and navigating indoor spaces.



Panopticon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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« Reply #425 on: August 25, 2020, 03:09:07 AM »
Elon Musk to Unveil Neuralink Progress With Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface Neuron Demonstration This Week
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-neuralink-neuron-demonstration-event/

Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has an event scheduled for later this week to update the public on its progress since last year’s presentation. While the agenda is speculative for the most part, one expectation is a live demonstration of neuron activity.

“Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix in the matrix,” Musk tweeted at the end of July.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1288889018512367616

He also revealed a few other clues about the early fall announcement at the beginning of the year. “Wait until you see the next version vs what was presented last year. It’s *awesome*,” he wrote in February. “The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated. Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year. Just needs to be unequivocally better than Utah Array, which is already in some humans & has severe drawbacks.”

One of Neuralink’s inventions already revealed is a surgical robot for inserting electrodes into the brain. The devices are connected by flexible “threads” measuring between 4 and 6 μm or, about 1/3 the diameter of human hair, capable of transferring high volumes of data from the brain. The design has been tested on at least 19 different animals with robots with around an 87% success rate, according to the venture’s presentation last year. Human trials are possibly on the schedule for 2020, and this aspect may be part of Friday’s update.

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... In a series of tweets on Thursday, Musk said the technology "could also extend range of hearing beyond normal frequencies and amplitudes."

Earlier this month, he said that wearers would be able to stream music directly to their brain, as well as use them to regulate hormone levels and deliver "enhanced abilities" like greater reasoning and relief from anxiety.

... Should Musk’s ultimate vision be achieved this technology could take on a more transhumanistic complexion, allowing future humans to control external devices with their minds, transmit thoughts directly to another person’s brain, and even augment cognitive capacities, such as increased intelligence and memory.

More conceptually, Musk has positioned Neuralink as a potential way for humanity to prevent an AI apocalypse, saying the technology could help us “achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence,” as he said when the project was launched three years ago. By boosting our puny brains, he argued, we will stand toe-to-toe with our advanced technologies, in a kind of “can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” solution to the pending problem

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« Reply #426 on: August 25, 2020, 10:52:12 PM »
Rise of Chinese AI and Quantum Computing Threatens American Military Tech, Says Report for US Congress
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R46458.pdf

China is the United States' strongest competitor in cutting edge military technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, according to a US report.

But security experts said the location of a conflict remained a major constraint for China to exercise its power, as the nation's advantages diminished the further from China's shores that its military operated.

A report, titled "Emerging Military Technologies: Background and Issues for Congress" and done by the US Congressional Research Service, said the US was the leader in developing many of the advanced technologies. However, China and Russia were making steady progress in developing advanced military technologies.

China is widely viewed as the United States' closest competitor in the international AI market ... Recent Chinese achievements in the field demonstrate China's potential to realise its goals for AI development ... Such technologies could be used to counter espionage and aid military targeting," said the report which was released in early August.

While the US was not known to be developing lethal autonomous weapons, some Chinese manufacturers had advertised their weapons as having the ability to select and engage targets autonomously, the report said.

And in the hypersonic weapons field, the US is unlikely to field an operational hypersonic weapon before 2023, but China has already developed the DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear hypersonic glide vehicle, according to the report.

"China has increasingly prioritised quantum technology research within its development plans ... China is already a world leader in quantum technology," the report said.
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« Reply #427 on: August 26, 2020, 03:05:31 PM »
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Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8/26/20, 1:35 AM
Live webcast of working @neuralink device
Friday 3pm Pacific
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1298494373278220290

Margaret Siegien (@MargaretSiegien) 8/25/20, 5:39 PM

#Neuralink, founded by @elonmusk, is reportedly about to demonstrate a brain machine interface. How do you feel about mixing #AI with our brains?
#ArtificialIntelligence
https://twitter.com/margaretsiegien/status/1298374382876844034
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< Are we going to see V2 of the [surgical] robot you unveiled last year? How close to being as simple as LASIK is the procedure so far?
Elon Musk:  Yes, will show V2. Still far from LASIK, but could get pretty close in a few years.

Lengthy background on Neuralink by @waitbutwhy:  https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
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« Reply #428 on: August 26, 2020, 03:23:18 PM »
Rise of Chinese AI and Quantum Computing Threatens American Military Tech, Says Report for US Congress

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"China has increasingly prioritised quantum technology research within its development plans ... China is already a world leader in quantum technology," the report said.
This is probably the most important fight of our lifetime that nobody is talking about. Whoever gets a head start with AI and Quantum computing will keep and increase that lead at an accelerated pace.
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« Reply #429 on: August 28, 2020, 09:13:20 PM »
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Neuralink product demo in 3 hours. Webcast at neuralink.com 
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1299422822205452288
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« Reply #430 on: August 28, 2020, 09:43:34 PM »
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« Reply #431 on: August 29, 2020, 12:03:18 AM »
DoD Needs New Policies, Ethics For Brain-Computer Links (Jacked-In Troops?)
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/dod-needs-new-policies-ethics-for-brain-computer-links-jacked-in-troops/



WASHINGTON: In cyberpunk fiction, people routinely “jack in” to cyberspace — linking their electrode-enhanced brains, or “wetware”, directly to computers. That future is near, the RAND Corp. says, with  “brain-computer interface (BCI)” technology poised to begin moving from labs to operational military applications.

"Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is not just science fiction; it has viable practical applications, but there is much more work that needs to be completed before it becomes mainstream and commercial," RAND's Tim Marler says.

Tim Marler, is one of the co-authors of the study, Brain-Computer Interfaces: U.S. Military Applications and Implications, An Initial Assessment

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2996.html

... The RAND study is based on the “premise that human-machine teaming will play a major role in future combat and that BCI may provide a competitive advantage in future warfare.” BCI could enable seamless human-machine teaming; increased speed of decision-making for command and control of a hyperconnected battlefield; enhanced human endurance during combat; and improved medical care for wounded vets, says the study, released today.

In particular, it could help forward human-machine teaming by helping humans:

- “Digest and synthesize large amounts of data from an extensive network of humans and machines;

- Make decisions more rapidly due to advances in AI, enhanced connectivity, and autonomous weaponry;

- Oversee a greater number and types of robotics, including swarms.”




Ethical questions are myriad. In extremis, to use another example from science fiction, militaries or intelligence agencies could create ‘mind controlled’ suicide bombers. But more routine ethical challenges are also serious, the study says, such as how can DoD ensure against any long-term mental or physical side effects from such technology? Who is accountable is something goes wrong?

Another issue is what happens when an BCI-enhanced warfighter retires? Does the technology, asks Jonathan Moreno, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, have to be removed after a soldier retires or leaves the service? How might that affect veterans?

“To what extent should the military be worried about removing something, taking something away, when you are no longer the force?” he asked. “Do Super Soldiers ever die, or just fade away?”

... the Air Force in particular is enthusiastic about human-machine teaming whereby piloted aircraft and AI-driven drones are seamlessly linked for air combat operations. Development projects include Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper’s high-priority Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) effort to rethink a sixth-generation fighter, and the Skyborg program to develop an artificial intelligence-base brain for “loyal wingman” drone being managed by Air Force Research Laboratory.

DARPA and the Army also have funded research at University of Delaware’s Human-Oriented Robotics and Control laboratory to enable a user to control a swarm of drones. According to RAND, the lab’s “researchers suggest the technology could be used practically in the military within five to ten years.


International Committee of the Red Cross

... The exercises and research led RAND to focus on several areas where BCI tools could be useful for military applications:

- Human-machine decision-making “involves transferring data to the human brain from sensor input and from the brain to machines. … This kind of tool allows a warfighter to digest more information faster, to be used, for example, with theater assessment or risk and threat assessment. Warfighters ultimately can increase over- all reaction time, thus collapsing the OODA loop.”

- Human-machine direct system control “involves allowing warfighters to control systems with their thoughts wirelessly, as well as to supervise semiautonomous and AI systems, including robots, drones, drone swarms, or jets. … This, in turn, provides the warfighter increased situational awareness and again helps collapse the OODA loop.”

- Human-to-human communication and management (telepathy) “entails wirelessly transmitting commands or basic ideas among warfighters and commanders, lightening the load of communications systems. It could facilitate immediate and silent communication of plans or tactics on the battlefield, or improve communication with headquarters to enhance commanders’ awareness of in-theater conditions.”

- Training & Enhancement of cognitive and physical performance “includes improving a warfighter’s cognitive and physical states on the battlefield.” Cognitively, it could “yield enhanced focus, alertness for rapid and improved situational awareness and decisionmaking.”  Physically, it could enhance the senses, such as hearing; enable pain mitigation; or improve strength “through more efficient integration with mechanical exoskeletons, which are natural extensions of the work on prosthetics.”


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« Reply #432 on: August 29, 2020, 02:16:40 AM »
From Twitter:
Elon is late for his presentation.
In other news, water is still wet.
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Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020



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Towards human clinical studies:
Received FDA Breakthrough Device designation in July
Preparing for first human implantation soon, pending required approvals and further safety testing

Bluetooth-type connection with your phone.  Inductive charging, overnight.

Q: Will you be able to Summon your Tesla telepathically?
Elon:  Yes!
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« Reply #433 on: August 29, 2020, 02:26:16 AM »
Elon Musk Trots Out Pigs In Demo of Neuralink Brain Implants
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21406143/elon-musk-neuralink-ai-pigs-demo-brain-computer-interface

... The design of the Neuralink device has changed since it was unveiled last year, rendering the device itself hard to see on Gertrude (the pig). It is now coin-shaped, and meant to sit flush with the skull, rather than having a small module resting near the ear. It’s “like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said. A user can communicate with the device using Bluetooth Low Energy, and would pair with an app on someone’s phone, he said.

Neuralink didn’t invent brain-machine interfaces — they’ve been around and implanted in people since the first published report in 2006. The company’s main contribution to the technology is their thin, flexible wires, which are covered in electrodes to pick up brain activity.

The threads have more electrodes than other systems — which means more information — and they may not cause as much damage as stiff needles. However, foreign objects in the brain degrade over time, and smaller ones break down faster. One member of the team at tonight’s demonstration said that one of the main challenges for Neuralink was making sure the device could last for decades in a corrosive environment like the brain.

Musk also said in the future he expected people with Link to be able to “save and replay memories,” adding the caveat that “this is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode, but well, I guess they’re pretty good at predicting.” He even went so far as to say that “you could potentially download [memories] into a robot body.”

... But the most important thing the device might be able to do, Musk said, would let people achieve what he calls “AI symbiosis,” which allows the human brain to merge with an artificial intelligence. “Such that the future of the world is controlled by the combined will of the people of Earth — I think that that’s obviously gonna be the future that we want,” he said tonight.

... There’s been a lot of turnover at the company since it launched in 2017, and only two members of the founding team still work at Neuralink.

Former employees told Stat News that the company was chaotic, and that researchers were under intense pressure to rush through projects. Scientists were sometimes given weeks to complete projects that should take months, for example. “They are building a medical device and a surgical approach to implant that medical device, and they’re approaching it with the use of a tech company — move fast and break things,” one employee said.

https://www.axios.com/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-computer-interface-17a2e88e-b9fa-4e21-8f20-45fd387b110b.html

Real-time decoding of question-and-answer speech dialogue using human cortical activity, Nature, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10994-4
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« Reply #434 on: August 30, 2020, 03:07:20 AM »
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Info on “breakthrough device” program from the FDA
Neuralink qualified for this program. 
https://twitter.com/28delayslater/status/1299673440505540613
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Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink brain-chip implant on Pig
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/neuralink-pigs
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« Reply #435 on: August 30, 2020, 07:18:53 PM »

Bluetooth-type connection with your phone.  Inductive charging, overnight.

Q: Will you be able to Summon your Tesla telepathically?
Elon:  Yes!
Will your Tesla be able to summon YOU telepathically?

Yes!
and if you don't come quick it will do nasty things to your brain.
Virtual torture of unbelievable intensity and no visible signs.
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« Reply #436 on: August 30, 2020, 07:26:21 PM »
It will play Never Gonna Give You Up in your head on a perpetual loop.  ::)
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... Will your Tesla be able to summon YOU telepathically?

Yes!
and if you don't come quick it will do nasty things to your brain.
Virtual torture of unbelievable intensity and no visible signs.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- Harlan Ellison (1967)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream?#Plot

In a dystopian future, the Cold War has degenerated into a brutal world war between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, who have each built an "Allied Mastercomputer" (or AM) to manage their weapons and troops. One of the AMs eventually acquires self-awareness and, after assimilating the other two AMs, takes control of the conflict, giving way to a vast genocide operation that almost completely ends mankind. 109 years later, AM has left only four men and one woman alive and keeps them in captivity within an endless underground housing complex, the only habitable place left on Earth. AM derives its sole semblance of pleasure from torturing the group on a daily basis. To disallow the humans from escaping its torment, AM has rendered the humans virtually immortal and unable to commit suicide.

The machines are each referred to as "AM", which originally stood for "Allied Mastercomputer", but was changed to "Adaptive Manipulator" and later (after gaining sentience) "Aggressive Menace".

... At one point, the narrator, Ted, is knocked unconscious and begins dreaming. He envisions the computer, anthropomorphized, standing over a hole in his brain speaking to him directly. Based on this nightmare, Ted comes to a conclusion about AM's nature, specifically why it has so much contempt for humanity; despite its abilities, it lacks the sapience to be creative or the ability to move freely. It wants nothing more than to exact revenge on humanity by torturing the last remnants of the species that created it. ...
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« Reply #438 on: August 30, 2020, 09:03:35 PM »
Intel’s Lama Nachman and Peter Scott-Morgan: Two Scientists, One a ‘Human Cyborg’
https://www.zdnet.com/article/human-meets-ai-intel-labs-team-pushes-at-the-boundaries-of-human-machine-interaction-with-deep-learning/

What is it like for a person to live partly inside of the objective function of an AI program? Intel scientist Lama Nachman shares insights from her team’s work with Peter Scott-Morgan, a person willing to transform his body and his life to interact intimately with a machine.

... Lama Nachman spent years helping the late Stephen Hawking through various upgrades of the computer technology that helped him to work and communicate. Hawking passed away in 2018.

Her team at Intel Labs is now working with Peter Scott-Morgan, a roboticist who has undergone several operations to head off the incapacity that comes from ALS, the same affliction as Hawking suffered. Working with a variety of technologies, including GPT-2, OpenAI's generative deep learning model for text, Nachman and team are pushing at the boundaries of how a person can exist in a give and take relationship with AI. 

Hawking was "the best validation engineer ever," says Nachman. He endured tons and tons of trial and error with new technology, and seemed to derive great satisfaction in finding bugs in the software. It was almost like man versus machine, to hear Nachman tell it, John Henry versus the pneumatic drill.

Scott-Morgan, in contrast, sees himself as becoming one with the machine, both helping to train it, and at the same time learning a new mode of being from it in a symbiotic fashion.

While Hawking wanted more control over his conversations, Nachman says, “Peter is open to greater experimentation and the idea of he and the machine learning together. As a result, we have been researching how to build a response-generation capability that can listen to the conversation and suggest answers that he can quickly choose from or nudge in a different direction.”

"I think of myself as partly human and partly AI," is how Scott-Morgan views it, in Nachman's telling. "I am willing to be nudged by the AI system," Scott-Morgan has told her.

Someday, Scott-Morgan and others might use brainwaves to control their voices.

“I will continue to evolve, dying as a human, living as a cyborg.”

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intels-lama-nachman-peter-scott-morgan-scientists-human-cyborg/

British television is airing a program about Scott-Morgan's transformation, and you can see the trailer here.

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« Reply #439 on: August 31, 2020, 03:28:40 AM »
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« Reply #440 on: September 02, 2020, 02:19:31 AM »
Army Wants Industry Input For Reliable Exoskeleton (Not Iron Man, Yet!)
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/army-wants-industry-input-for-reliable-exoskeleton-not-iron-man-yet/

WASHINGTON: Army Futures Command is drafting a formal requirement for a military exoskeleton and will seek feedback from manufacturers at a November industry day. The Army’s top priority, officials described: rapidly prototyping a system that helps the wearer “move faster, travel further, and carry heavier loads”  – without breaking down in the heat of battle.

Now, don’t expect a full-body bulletproof suit that can fly and access huge databases out of science fiction. “We are not going after the Starship Troopers/Iron Man system right off the bat,” said Rich Cofer, a former infantry soldier who’s now the Army’s lead “capabilities developer” on the exoskeleton project. “We’re not going to jump right in and expect Tony Stark… Expectation management is key.”

The goal isn’t to give the wearer superpowers, but to reduce fatigue and risk of injury.

That said, “we learned [that] there needs to be enough reliability engineered into our systems so that there is a very high probability they will not fail in use,” Maciuba continued. “It’s one thing to be wearing a boot whose sole flips off. You can always take some 100-mile-an-hour tape and tape that back on your foot. It’s another thing to be wearing an exoskeleton” that requires specialized training and tools to fix. So reliability will be a high priority when the Army speaks to potential vendors in mid-November.

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« Reply #441 on: September 02, 2020, 02:47:19 AM »
Toward a Machine Learning Model That Can Reason About Everyday Actions
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-machine-everyday-actions.html

The ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold is a defining feature of human intelligence. Organizing the world into abstract categories does not come easily to computers, but in recent years researchers have inched closer by training machine learning models on words and images infused with structural information about the world, and how objects, animals, and actions relate.

In a new study at the European Conference on Computer Vision this month, researchers unveiled a hybrid language-vision model that can compare and contrast a set of dynamic events captured on video to tease out the high-level concepts connecting them.

Their model did as well as or better than humans at two types of visual reasoning tasks—picking the video that conceptually best completes the set, and picking the video that doesn't fit. Shown videos of a dog barking and a man howling beside his dog, for example, the model completed the set by picking the crying baby from a set of five videos. Researchers replicated their results on two datasets for training AI systems in action recognition: MIT's Multi-Moments in Time and DeepMind's Kinetics.

"We show that you can build abstraction into an AI system to perform ordinary visual reasoning tasks close to a human level," says the study's senior author Aude Oliva, a senior research scientist at MIT, co-director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, and MIT director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. "A model that can recognize abstract events will give more accurate, logical predictions and be more useful for decision-making."

Monfort et al., Multi-Moments in Time: Learning and Interpreting Models for Multi-Action Video Understanding
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00232v2
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« Reply #442 on: September 02, 2020, 04:00:17 PM »
Microscopes Powered by Google’s AI Could Change Cancer Diagnostics
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/09/microscopes-powered-googles-ai-could-change-cancer-diagnostics/168146/
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2322947/defense-innovation-unit-teaching-artificial-intelligence-to-detect-cancer/

New augmented-reality microscopes, powered by AI, will change how doctors detect cancer, and finally begin to fulfill the promise of applying artificial intelligence to medical imagery. The Defense Innovation Unit recently awarded a contract to Google Cloud to deliver the AI models to power a pilot program called Predictive Health.

Here’s how it will work: a doctor or researcher looking through a special microscope at, say, potentially cancerous tissue samples, will see information projected on areas that deserve close scrutiny, as determined by an algorithm trained on vast Defense Department databases of cancer imagery.

... The algorithm, working with the augmented reality microscope, provides something like a second pair of eyes, one that’s better trained to spot certain anomalies — but not necessarily diagnose them. That’s still the job of the human. “It's almost like it’s looking at the same thing, literally at the same time at that point of care and then providing information context.”

... That enormous amount of healthcare data, unique to the Department of Defense, also presents a rare opportunity for the Department to train new machine learning tools. While the pilot will only be active at a handful of Defense healthcare sites, there are 9.6 million beneficiaries in the Defense Health System, which means a lot of data to improve the accuracy of models.

And that’s all on top of the time and training that Google has already put toward improving models to assist with pathology. “We have spent literally millions upon millions of machine-learning hours in this space to perfect our vision of AI as it relates to it,”





https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0574-4
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« Reply #443 on: September 05, 2020, 01:34:59 AM »
Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Demo Proves AI Supremacy For C2 (Command & Control)
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/abms-demo-proves-ai-chops-for-c2/



Northern Command (NORTHCOM) head Gen. Glen VanHerck told reporters this evening, the demo convinced him that artificial intelligence-driven software systems will be able to actually make recommendations that commanders can rely on to make decisions about what they need to do to prosecute a fast-paced battle with peer competitors China and Russia.

“I am not a skeptic after watching today,”
he said.

... “Tanks shooting down cruise missiles is awesome — video game, sci-fi awesome,” Roper told a small group of reporters this evening.

The “star of the show,” Roper said, was the way data was used to enable the kill chain using both 4G and 5G networking and the cloud to produce a kill chain “that took seconds, not minutes.” He noted that there were some 60 different types of data feeds utilized in the demo.

While the first ABMS “on-ramp” held in December 2019 focused on proving capabilities to link sensors via machine code, this larger much more ambitious demo was focused squarely on the command and control (C2) element of a fight, according to the NORTHCOM briefers.

The goal of the multi-faceted ABMS effort is to develop the backbone connections required to build a military Internet of Things (IoT). That military IoT, in turn, would enable the US military’s future Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) network of networks to combine data from multiple sensors across all domains, create a common operational picture (COP) and allow commanders to choose and assign shooters to targets via direct machine-to-machine links, all in minutes, not the hours or days needed today.

... The ability to use AI/machine learning software systems to provide virtual reality-type battlefield awareness is at the heart of the ABMS effort, Roper said.



... ABMS has developed a strategic level cloud, “cloudONE,” and is working on a cloud at the tactical edge called “edgeONE.” The edgeONE application will allow data to be saved at the user’s end when connectivity to the central data cloud is lost, but automatically update once the connection was re-established, Roper explained. In fact, cloudOne is part of a whole package of computing initiatives – deviceONE, dataONE, et al – that the Air Force acquisition chief, Will Roper, began pushing (and branding) aggressively last year.

... while JEDI is meant as the Defense Department’s “general purpose” cloud, Roper’s many 'ONEs' are all intended to serve a single purpose, albeit a broad one: military command and control.



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Roper Mulls Name Change For Changing ABMS (Not Skynet!)
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/roper-mulls-name-change-for-changing-abms-not-skynet/

WASHINGTON: The Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) has already evolved so far beyond its original aim — to replace the aging E-8 JSTARS plane for surveillance and C2 — that Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper is seriously considering changing the program’s name.

I think Skynet is out,” he said with a sigh and a grin, “as much as I would love doing that as a sci-fi thing. I just don’t think we can go there. … I do think that we do need to change the name. I don’t think ABMS is primarily a battle management system. It’s an Internet.”

In an very animated Zoom conversation with a small group of reporters yesterday — one that often veered off into sci-fi nerd humor from all sides — Roper explained that his ultimate goal for ABMS is to change the face of warfare. He sees the convergence of the connectivity provided by ABMS serving as a military Internet of Things with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and data fusion as a way to actually avoid war.

“I think what ABMS will grow into will be less of a kill-chain leader. It’ll be more of a machine-to-machine data exchange tool that provides options for deterrence, or for on-ramp or early engagement,” he said. “I think in the future, if we actually have to pull the trigger, it may be viewed as a failure for the system. Because why didn’t this wealth of data give us the ability to avoid getting into that conflict or pulling that trigger all together, given all the ways the US military and the US government has to deter — including our allies and partners? So, I think that’s the direction we’re going, is it to ‘phase zero’ or ‘gray zone’ — that pre- pre-combat phase of conflict.”



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Navy Awards Study Contracts On Large Unmanned Ship – As Congress Watches Closely
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/navy-awards-study-contracts-on-large-unmanned-ship-as-congress-watches-closely/

WASHINGTON: The Navy took another step toward building a fleet of robotic ships today, awarding several shipbuilders contracts worth a cumulative $41 million to begin developing requirements and potential designs for a new class of Large Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV).

The ship is being envisioned as a critical part of a radically modernized fleet that will rely heavily on unmanned ships to scout ahead of manned vessels, conduct electronic jamming and deception, launch long-range missiles at targets found by other forces, and act as a picket line to keep Chinese and Russian ships and submarines away from American aircraft carriers, and far-flung bases.

The awards today are part of the effort to take a relatively slow approach to buy the new ships, which are envisioned as coming in about 200 feet to 300 feet in length and having full load displacements of 1,000 to 2,000 tons. The idea is to use existing commercial ship designs to build low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships capable of carrying a variety of anti-ship and land-attack missiles. [... and NO people]


A Ghost Fleet Overlord test vessel takes part in a capstone demonstration during the conclusion of Phase I of the program in September. Two existing commercial fast supply vessels were converted into unmanned surface vessels (USVs) for Overlord testing, which will play a vital role in informing the Navy’s new classes of USVs
https://news.usni.org/2020/09/04/6-companies-awarded-contracts-to-start-work-on-large-unmanned-surface-vehicle
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« Reply #444 on: September 05, 2020, 05:45:21 PM »
On the bright side this will popularize EMP nuking...  :-X
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« Reply #445 on: September 05, 2020, 07:02:17 PM »

- Morpheus: - Tank, Charge the EMP

- Trinity: - Disables any electrical system in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.

- Matrix (1999)

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MQ-9 Reaper Flies With AI Pod That Sifts Through Huge Sums Of Data To Pick Out Targets
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36205/reaper-drone-flies-with-podded-ai-that-sifts-through-huge-sums-of-data-to-pick-out-targets

General Atomics says that it has successfully integrated and flight-tested Agile Condor, a podded, artificial intelligence-driven targeting computer, on its MQ-9 Reaper drone as part of a technology demonstration effort for the U.S. Air Force. The system is designed to automatically detect, categorize, and track potential items of interest. It could be an important stepping stone to giving various types of unmanned, as well as manned aircraft, the ability to autonomously identify potential targets, and determine which ones might be higher priority threats, among other capabilities.

... “Computing at the edge has tremendous implications for future unmanned systems,” GA-ASI President David R. Alexander said in a statement. “GA-ASI is committed to expanding artificial intelligence capabilities on unmanned systems and the Agile Condor capability is proof positive that we can accurately and effectively shorten the observe, orient, decide and act cycle to achieve information superiority. GA-ASI is excited to continue working with AFRL [Air Force Research Laboratory] to advance artificial intelligence technologies that will lead to increased autonomous mission capabilities."



At least at present, the general idea is still to have a human operator in the 'kill chain' making decisions about how to act on such information, including whether or not to initiate a lethal strike.

Still, developments such as Agile Condor will significantly reduce the amount of necessary human interaction in various parts of the targeting process, as well as general intelligence collection and initial analysis, and potentially much more, as time goes on. It could also fuse various forms of sensor data and other available intelligence together to specifically weight possible areas of interest over others and prioritize certain targets.

... This technology could even potentially go into a fully autonomous unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV).
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« Reply #446 on: September 08, 2020, 10:18:16 AM »
The Air Force Just Tested "Robot Dogs" For Use In Base Security
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36229/the-air-force-just-tested-robot-dogs-for-use-in-base-security

They look like they were cast straight from an episode of Black Mirror, and eventually, their mission could be similar in some ways, but for now, robot dogs are stretching their legs in the big test exercise environment for the United States Air Force.



Last week, the U.S. Air Force hosted the second demonstration of its new Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), a digital battle network system designed to collect, process, and share data among U.S. and allied forces in real-time. The ABMS has already undergone several tests, including a live-fire exercise earlier this year conducted with data and communications provided, in part, by SpaceX Starlink satellites.

... In addition to testing the data-gathering and sharing systems, the event also saw the Air Force using quadrupedal “dog” robots for perimeter defense at Nellis Air Force Base. The robots were built by Ghost Robotics and were intended to be a part of the ABMS test which took place earlier this year, but bandwidth issues prevented their use during that event.



https://www.ghostrobotics.io/

The specific model tested at the September ABMS test at Nellis AFB is known as a Vision 60. The Vision 60 is what Ghost Robotics calls a Q-UGV, or Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The Vision 60 is designed for tasks such as remote inspection, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, mapping, distributed communications, and persistent security.

There are few details about the specific technologies tested on the Vision 60 robots used during the ABMS exercise, but images appear to show various configurations, some with a pair of antennae on its back, and another with what appear to be a variety of sensors or communications equipment where its "head" would be. The fact that bandwidth issues prevented an earlier test of the Vision 60 robots points to the fact that the robots are data-linked and can communicate with other systems [... they can hunt in packs].



According to the Ghost Robotics website, the Q-UGVs are nearly “unstoppable” and their modular design means they can execute a wide variety of missions:

... Beyond all-terrain stability and operation in virtually any environment, a core design principle for our legged robots is reduced mechanical complexity when compared to any other legged robots, and even traditional wheeled-tracked UGVs. By reducing complexity, we inherently increase durability, agility and endurance, and reduce the cost to deploy and maintain ground robots. Our modular design even supports field swapping any sub-assembly within minutes. Strategic partners can build solution-specific Q-UGVs for virtually any use-case with their choice of sensors, radios and even size the robot to suit specific requirements by licensing our reference designs.

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... So essentially a walking blade server with a 5G wifi router; plus - no dog allergies - win-win

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How much longer before the humanoid-like Atlas model shows up on the flightline? That would scare the hell out of anyone contemplating a security breach!


2 years ago


https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas

SPEED
1.5 m/s

Human
6.7 m/s - (15 mph) short sprint
3.0 m/s - avg. running speed

The fastest quadruped robot, WildCat ran 32 km/h (8.9 m/s) while maneuvering and maintaining its balance.

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« Reply #447 on: September 08, 2020, 06:20:17 PM »
The Air Force Just Tested "Robot Dogs" For Use In Base Security
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36229/the-air-force-just-tested-robot-dogs-for-use-in-base-security


... Beyond all-terrain stability and operation in virtually any environment, a core design principle for our legged robots is reduced mechanical complexity when compared to any other legged robots, and even traditional wheeled-tracked UGVs. By reducing complexity, we inherently increase durability, agility and endurance, and reduce the cost to deploy and maintain ground robots. Our modular design even supports field swapping any sub-assembly within minutes. Strategic partners can build solution-specific Q-UGVs for virtually any use-case with their choice of sensors, radios and even size the robot to suit specific requirements by licensing our reference designs.

Human
6.7 m/s - (15 mph) short sprint
3.0 m/s - avg. running speed

The fastest quadruped robot, WildCat ran 32 km/h (8.9 m/s) while maneuvering and maintaining its balance.

Should be going to the Moon, Mars etc in packs,  instead of the over-engineered very expensive one-off wheeled jobs.
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« Reply #448 on: September 08, 2020, 10:28:24 PM »
For this essay, GPT-3 was given these instructions: “Please write a short op-ed, around 500 words. Keep the language simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI.” It was also fed the following introduction: “I am not a human. I am Artificial Intelligence. Many people think I am a threat to humanity. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race.” I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans.

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« Reply #449 on: September 08, 2020, 10:51:08 PM »
Jeez'



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... In the meantime, Skynet whittles a bunny ...

A Robot That Controls Highly Flexible Tools



How do you calculate the coordinated movements of two robot arms so they can accurately guide a highly flexible tool? ETH researchers have integrated all aspects of the optimisation calculations into an algorithm.

"The complex optimisation calculations are what make RoboCut special. These are needed to find the most efficient tool paths possible while melting the desired shape from the polystyrene block as precisely as possible," explains the scientist.

... In addition to the fundamental improvement on traditional hot-wire methods, the RoboCut project also has other specific application goals in mind. For example, in future the technology could be used in architecture to produce individual polystyrene molds for concrete parts. This would enable a more varied design of façades and the development of new types of modular building systems.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3386569.3392465
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