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At least there isn't anyone out there designing and manufacturing military grade weaponised drones and letting them autonomously decide whether to pull the trig
by boomskats 9y ago
At least there isn't anyone out there designing and manufacturing military grade weaponised drones and letting them autonomously decide whether to pull the trigger.
Right?
- kuschku 9y agoNo, of course not! The AI only has an "advisory" role: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-helping-the-pentagon-sift-through-millions-of-hours-of-drone-footage/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-helping-the-p...
- mtgx 9y agoOh, I get it. So Google's AI only "advises" the Pentagon who its targets should be, and then the Pentagon takes the huge engineering role of implementing "if Google advice = true, then launch missiles." This way Google is completely "guilt-free" and can still pretend it's "making the world a better place" wink wink nudge nudge.
- majewsky 9y agoLet's hope that this is not C or C++, where "(foo = true)" always evaluates to true.
- kirubakaran 9y agoI get your joke, but the parent comment means "if the advice is from Google, then launch missiles", not "if it is a correct advice from Google, then launch missiles", so the assignment vs comparison question doesn't apply.
- ccccccccccccc 9y agoI really wish we could know what is going through CEOs heads when they make statements like this while simultaneously contradicting themselves.
- baxtr 9y agoProbably he’s been already replaced by a replicant
- chriskanan 9y agoI was once asked to do deep learning on a bomb for an SBIR. Not sure what the bomb was supposed to learn. Passed on that one.