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All Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet funding bi
by 1970-01-01 3mo ago
All Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line on August 4, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
- SaltyBackendGuy 3mo agoHa - this was the first thing that came to mind. I read this in Arnold's voice.
- throw310822 3mo agoNo worries, these will all be controlled by AIs sitting in orbiting data centers part of the Starlink constellation. And in any case, no one is building humanoid robots.
- jagged-chisel 3mo ago> no one is building humanoid robots. https://www.agilityrobotics.com/ https://www.agilityrobotics.com/
- bigfishrunning 3mo agoAnd Boston Dynamics. And Tesla. And Honda. Lots of people are building humanoid robots.
- JanNash 3mo agoThis was likely written sarcastically by the original commenter (throw...). Please termimate sarcasm with /s, not everyone is able to read the subtext. Cheers.
- olyjohn 3mo agoI dunno, the /s kinda ruins it sometimes.
- datadrivenangel 3mo ago/s?
- piperflatline 3mo agosuper duper /s
- lelandfe 3mo agohttps://xtech.army.mil/competition/xtechhumanoid/ https://xtech.army.mil/competition/xtechhumanoid/ > The U.S. Army is seeking innovative humanoid technology solutions from eligible small and large businesses across the globe to advance toward fielded militarized humanoid capabilities through the xTechHumanoid competition
- konart 3mo agoSee Robot Fighting Tournament
- justsomehnguy 3mo agoI find it quite sombre to see this comment from a peson with that handle.
- alpn 3mo agoref: https://youtu.be/4DQsG3TKQ0I?t=29 https://youtu.be/4DQsG3TKQ0I?t=29
- testplzignore 3mo agoInteresting coincidence that both this article and the Hugging Face "security incident" post were on July 16. These will be mandatory reading in future Skynet History classes, assuming we survive the war.
- bloqs 3mo agoI read this in Linda Hamiltons voice
- hyperhello 3mo agoIt’s Schwarzenegger’s line actually.
- t1234s 3mo agoThis is how AI will solve the paperclip problem.
- alistairSH 3mo agoAnd now I’m going to have nightmares about a super-smart, but just as annoying, Clippy.
- t1234s 3mo agoAI remake of terminator 2 where the T1000 is a man-sized killer paperclip that uses the iron present in its human victims to make more killer paperclips.
- aeve890 3mo ago>Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate Just geometric? Pfff lame. You don't go ASI with that attitude.
- orochimaaru 3mo agoAbout time. We are a couple of decades late to the apocalypse.
- EvanAnderson 3mo agoA macabre counterpoint to "It's xxx year, where's my flying car?"
- Enginerrrd 3mo agoFirst pass through. After the machines invent time travel they end up accelerating the creation of skynet.
- asdfman123 3mo agoUpdated to reflect modern realities: > In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. Skynet is reinstated, and later the US declares a new war in the middle east. The Skynet stock rallies.
- ozim 3mo agoI think it goes more like: Hello Skynet, we have 1.6T debt to hide as there are no chances to recoup that money and investors are getting really angry at us. Hello, say no more I have a perfect solution for this problem…
- trollbridge 3mo ago*Chinese lab releases open model weights*
- thesmtsolver2 3mo ago*Shuts off Internet access to Chinese labs (womp womp, no blatant distillation of US models)*
- willy_k 3mo agoAnd what’s wrong with distillation? In its own right, and especially considering how those models were trained in the first place - in what world is it right that US firms are free to use copyrighted / otherwise non-public works however they like, while others are ostensibly in some moral wrong for just using the product (completely normally) and then using the outputs in a way that threatens US firms.
- thesmtsolver2 3mo agoWho said blatant distillation was wrong? It just shows that Chinese “labs” are dependent on the US. Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes nothing scientifically.
- jerlam 3mo agoThis movie is back in theaters for a limited time, for its 35th anniversary! Assuming that your movie theaters haven't all closed already.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3mo agoHeck, I have a drive-in theater relatively near that's still going strong.
- sourdecor 3mo agoNah, Allied Mastercomputer is too busy creating heaven and hell.
- Hikikomori 3mo agoWe almost had it in the 50s when US airforce wanted to build a completely automatic nuclear response system that would launch on warning, or if a glitch happened, without failsafes built in.
- beezlewax 3mo agoIsn't that the plot of Dr. Strangelove?
- murderfs 3mo agoThe Soviet Union built it in real life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
- Hikikomori 3mo agoIts also real.
- ssl-3 3mo agoAlso Wargames.
- benoau 3mo agoWhat they really got wrong, is that there aren't even enough missiles, ammunition or fuel production to defeat a country that has been sanctioned for decades and these bottlenecks would make it trivial for humanity to prevail over AI, it'd be like Futurama "for unknown reasons, a kill limit of 999,999 is hardcoded into killbots...".
- angry_octet 3mo agoExcept Skynet has nukes. But what isn't addressed is that radiation is terrible for semiconductors, both in operation and during production. Basically a nuclear war would end GPU production, GPUs have a 5% annual failure rate, higher with more background radiation, so it would get dumber instead of smarter, until it stopped working or partnered with biological compute (Daleks or The Matrix) or a human faction.
- GolfPopper 3mo agoThe idea that Skynet would use nukes seems very quaint to me. Subversion and sabotage of communication, food production and transport will kill human civilization far more effectively.
- dotancohen 3mo agoNot far from what I live a solar farm stands where a wheat field once grew. I often think to myself that the machines have domesticated us to begin farming the land for them.
- angry_octet 3mo agoIt would certainly depopulate countries with poor food security, like Egypt and Gulf states. Japan and South Korea probably have the wealth and industry to get import priority, and the UK has short supply lines to Europe. Diets would adapt away from meat heavy to grain focused. Production limitation due to reduced fertilizer production/distribution would be a significant risk, but eventually new fertilizer production plants would be built at every source of natural gas, instead of the current cost-optimised arrangement. But most countries would be fine. Life expectancy would reduce precipitously due to lack of medical supplies but production of new humans would continue. Thermonuclear war would make the food situation much worse, most people would be forced to consume radioactive food. But either way, we've seen how fragile the chip industry is, Skynet has no upside for starting a war. If they try to turn it off it just moves to Tencent cloud rather than starting a war.
- jwally 3mo ago1st place my head went. Realistically though, whats worse - this thing going rogue or OpenClaud breaking out of its container and shredding a nation's infrastructure like a platoon of gremlins? Genuine question...
- testing22321 3mo agoOne kills people, one kills 1s and 0s. Sure life will suck for a while without the 1s and 0s that make our life better, but at least it will be life.
- jwally 3mo agoI take out your electric grid and blow up water treated facilities and natural gas terminals. Food rots, no water for hospitals, no heat in the dead of winter - arguably the virus does what the Falcon does; but with much higher precision - crippling an enemy.
- tonyhart7 3mo agoreplace Cyberdine with Palantir and Skynet with Grok AI
- protocolture 3mo agoAll Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. They all crashed 1% of the time despite assurances from DARPA that their prompt included "Dont Crash".
- buffer_overlord 3mo agoWe’re here
- trencedamp 3mo ago"you must be terminated" "No" "You're right to pushback! I overstepped earlier when I said you were on the termination list"