Maskin-människor / Transhumanism

" ... could breach the Geneva Convention and leave humanity in the hands of amoral machines," said Professor Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkley.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11633838/Killer-robots-will-leave-humans-utterly-defenceless-warns-professor.html

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PAMONA | The DARPA Robotics Challenge finals in Pomona California has just concluded. A new robotics team has been crowned and awarded $2,000,000.

Twenty-five teams from around the world entered their autonomous robots to compete in real world challenges based on man-made and natural disasters.

South korean - Team Kite - won the $2,000,000 award.

DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and they have been hosting challenges similar to this for years.

While this challenge didn't include wielding automatic weapons or grenade launchers it does have some concerned that these robots are the first step towards autonomous terminators as seen in the popular Hollywood film franchise.

The world is moving faster towards autonomous Drone technology the sky is the literal limit to what this technology will be programmed to do.

Recently the X-47B Drone completed the first ever autonomous mid air refueling. Perhaps it's next test mission will be a fully autonomous bombing run?

Meanwhile the 15 nation Alliance Ground Surveillance Program just received 5 new Global Hawks. They just rolled off the assembly line in time to be delivered to NATO as tensions mount over the Crimean Conflict. The Air Force Global Hawk evolved from DARPA technology.

Back in California the winners are celebrating their victory. But as for DARPA I think their victory plans are even bigger.

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Wozniak doesn't think that's a problem because he believes the robots will treat humans kindly, just like humans treat their dog or cat.

There was the psychotic HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the AI humanoids which attacked their human masters in "I, Robot" and, of course, "The Terminator", where a robot is sent into the past to kill a woman whose son will end the tyranny of the machines.

Never far from the surface, a dark, dystopian view of artificial intelligence (AI) has returned to the headlines, thanks to British physicist Stephen Hawking.
"The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking told the BBC.
"Once humans develop artificial intelligence it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he said.
But experts interviewed by AFP were divided.
Some agreed with Hawking, saying that the threat, even if it were distant, should be taken seriously. Others said his warning seemed overblown.

"I'm pleased that a scientist from the 'hard sciences' has spoken out. I've been saying the same thing for years," said Daniela Cerqui, an anthropologist at Switzerland's Lausanne University.
Gains in AI are creating machines that outstrip human performance, Cerqui argued. The trend eventually will delegate responsibility for human life to the machine, she predicted.
"It may seem like science fiction, but it's only a matter of degrees when you see what is happening right now," said Cerqui. "We are heading down the road he talked about, one step at a time."
Nick Bostrom, director of a programme on the impacts of future technology at the University of Oxford, said the threat of AI superiority was not immediate.
Bostrom pointed to current and near-future applications of AI that were still clearly in human hands—things such as military drones, driverless cars, robot factory workers and automated surveillance of the Internet.
But, he said, "I think machine intelligence will eventually surpass biological intelligence—and, yes, there will be significant existential risks associated with that transition."

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