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So Facebook versus Google is the next sound thing.

by marvel_boy 11y ago

guelo 11y ago
I can imagine Google and Facebook having competing armies in the coming robot wars.
- ph0rque 11y ago
  Speaking of which, what would a robot war look like? I imagine a large portion of the effort would be to hack/otherwise persuade the enemy robots to switch sides.
  - pgeorgi 11y ago
    If their intelligence is worth anything, they'll meet, setup a common picnic, no humans allowed.
    - jonathantm 11y ago
      [(Somewhat) Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1626/ https://xkcd.com/1626/).
    - drdrey 11y ago
      This is almost exactly the plot of this short story by Philip K. Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
  - deleted 11y ago
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  - shpx 11y ago
    Here's what the US Army Research Lab thinks warfare will look like in 2050. Reading just the Contents is a pretty good TL;DR but basically augmented humans, micro targeting, lots of misinformation, and so much information that decisions have to be automated to the point that humans can only operate "on the loop" instead of "in the loop". http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/ARL_Visualizing_Tactical_Ground_Battlefield_2050_Report.pdf http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/ARL_Vi...
    - narrator 11y ago
      ...and the Russians will develop electronic warfare that will make all of those advanced systems useless.
      - pas 11y ago
        Politics. There are obvious strategies (bomb everything, if war still not over, build bigger bombs and GOTO 10), but that sort of demotivates humans and they stop the war. It'll be interesting (as in the old fake Chinese curse interesting) to know what happens when less democratic power structures wage war. They are still constrained by economics (trade creates value, if they bomb the shit out of someone they might find themselves cut off from trade, see embargoes and sanctions on Russia) and the possibility of an internal struggle (civil war) is always there.
  - socceroos 11y ago
    It will always come back to threatening human lives. You can always smash machines against each other, but ultimately it's pointless until the humans themselves are threatened with their lives.
nezza-_- 11y ago
Would be funny to have competitions similar to the boat race between Oxford & Cambridge.
kowdermeister 11y ago
The movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project comes to my mind :)

So Facebook versus Google is the next sound thing.

guelo 11y ago

I can imagine Google and Facebook having competing armies in the coming robot wars.

ph0rque 11y ago
Speaking of which, what would a robot war look like? I imagine a large portion of the effort would be to hack/otherwise persuade the enemy robots to switch sides.
- pgeorgi 11y ago
  If their intelligence is worth anything, they'll meet, setup a common picnic, no humans allowed.
  - jonathantm 11y ago
    [(Somewhat) Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1626/ https://xkcd.com/1626/).
  - drdrey 11y ago
    This is almost exactly the plot of this short story by Philip K. Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
- deleted 11y ago
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- shpx 11y ago
  Here's what the US Army Research Lab thinks warfare will look like in 2050. Reading just the Contents is a pretty good TL;DR but basically augmented humans, micro targeting, lots of misinformation, and so much information that decisions have to be automated to the point that humans can only operate "on the loop" instead of "in the loop". http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/ARL_Visualizing_Tactical_Ground_Battlefield_2050_Report.pdf http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/ARL_Vi...
  - narrator 11y ago
    ...and the Russians will develop electronic warfare that will make all of those advanced systems useless.
    - pas 11y ago
      Politics. There are obvious strategies (bomb everything, if war still not over, build bigger bombs and GOTO 10), but that sort of demotivates humans and they stop the war. It'll be interesting (as in the old fake Chinese curse interesting) to know what happens when less democratic power structures wage war. They are still constrained by economics (trade creates value, if they bomb the shit out of someone they might find themselves cut off from trade, see embargoes and sanctions on Russia) and the possibility of an internal struggle (civil war) is always there.
- socceroos 11y ago
  It will always come back to threatening human lives. You can always smash machines against each other, but ultimately it's pointless until the humans themselves are threatened with their lives.

nezza-_- 11y ago

Would be funny to have competitions similar to the boat race between Oxford & Cambridge.

kowdermeister 11y ago

The movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project comes to my mind :)