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Artificial Intelligences warring with each other on stock markets? Witness the birth of Skynet, it's not going to be a military machine but a predatory corpora
by AlexC04 15y ago
Artificial Intelligences warring with each other on stock markets?
Witness the birth of Skynet, it's not going to be a military machine but a predatory corporate AI. Originally designed to devour competing AIs on the capital markets only to turn on its masters when the funds run out.
Woah. Spooky. Someone tell WIlliam Gibson and Vernor Vinge. Hell, I'd write that story if I had the time!
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oh no! It's a predatory Corporate AI that has built in new monitoring functions. The news monitoring subprocess has discovered that there's a predictable correlation between WAR and stock market fluctuation.
What does it do, suddenly places a whole stack of extremem long shot PUTS and SHORTS then hacks into the military computers to instigate a war between two nations.
We've got a grizzled reporter or plucky young cop (maybe an SEC investigator?) who's doing routine investigations into this and that and uncovers a series of small time conflicts in bananna republics. (these were A/B split testing 'dry runs' the damned AI was reading the visual website optimizer's blog posts!)
Just as he (or she's) connecting the dots on the small time stuff there's a major tunabout and the AI has put a bunch of shorts ON US SOIL.... !!! (oh noes! all of america is at risk!)
Boom! Race around trying to uncover the source... but now the AI is on to him (or her) and has started hacking public records to declare him (or her) as public enemy number one.
Then ... ROBOT ATTACK!! Just as he or she is on the final sprint to disconnect the AI's network cables - military robots spring out of their boxes and start shooting. PEW PEW PEW.
ALso - after the cable gets unplugged of course we learn that it's already made it out into the CLOUD!
I love this story :) Just the right balance of total cheese and hard Sci Fi.
- jerf 15y ago"Woah. Spooky. Someone tell William Gibson and Vernor Vinge." cstross, actually: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
- nikcub 15y agothe news discovery portion fascinates me. I know that they are sucking in all of Twitter, as much of Facebook as they can, tons of RSS, etc. recently there was a case where the actress anne hathaway was trending on twitter and it caused the bots to short berkshire hathaway stock, which dipped ~6% arms race going on which will only open more opportunities to exploit these situations. feeding in all this public news data and automating trades makes a mockery of SEC insider trading regulation (because it is so easy to hide - the computer did it!) I would love to read a full feature of what goes on inside GS et al but I know that the quants aren't allowed to speak about it and the companies do not discuss it. We get drip fed small pieces of info but nobody has really assembled a complete picture of what is going on. I do know that the investment banks are some of the largest customers for most of the large enterprise IT co's (IBM, Sun, Microsoft, EMC, etc.). The IB's are also hiring mathematicians and compsci graduates like crazy - the tech these guys are producing must be cutting edge and at a very very large scale
- EwanG 15y agoBe sure to update this with your Kickstarter URL for contributions to have you write/publish this.:-)
- Volscio 15y agoIn Daniel Suarez's Daemon (and sequel, Freedom), a dying programmer develops an AI that maintains a fair economic system for its participants, and harshly punishes violators. Great read. http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113 http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113