That’s why we need science fiction, to not be afraid of all the abhorrent and abhorrently efficient weapons the future holds for us.
And yes, Star Wars is a very perceptive choice of name on part of George Lucas.
The scary part is that we all sit on our sweaty bottoms while such things are being developed not by bad guys and good guys to fight each other over us, but by bad guys and bad guys to fight each other over us.
idk man, at no point do any two or more stars fight each other /s
Great, but concerning…
I’m aware that we’re currently capable of reading the mind to some limited extent, using MRI-like machines and machine learning models trained on certain brain signals, but being able to literally utilise a brain for ‘arbitrary’ processing is on another level entirely 😳
I wonder what else this is capable of doing or running, and the expected shelf life in particular, seeing as it’s basically biological matter that I’m assuming can age.
Let’s hope these researchers keep things responsible and don’t try to run a text generation model on it 😅 /s
I don’t know if you understand what military funded means… It’s basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.
There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it’s something positive and not be afraid.
The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations in secret.
So while I like tech, I’m also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that “don’t get children” is the best advice ever.
This is fine
Why can’t we get Jurassic Park before biological AI?
Dinosaurs, while neat, do not bring sufficient profits for the offense industry.
I’d like to see how the Russians handle raptors.
I feel like this was the origin story for the computer in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
It’s more like the origin story for the Cymeks in Dune. Although they were at least human once.
People worry about AI taking over the world when it will probably be human machine hybrids deciding ‘yeah fuck humans’ in their giant killer Mechs.
I wonder, at the point where it’s neurons making up a very small piece of tissue, what benefit human cells give over something like a pig (the article does say human and mouse, but still).
of course the military is interested in this… god.
Aw sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.
My name is Alex James Murphy
That was kinda the other way round. But it’s set in 2028… So maybe.
We’re really trying to find a way to boost LLM performance, huh
“Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.”
Killbot industry: “We would never let a machine make the final decision. There’ll always be a human element involved”
Human element:
The homeopathy of ethical compliance
I still feel that silicone is more reliable than dealing with organic matter that can die.
How do they keep it alive. Do you need to feed it or keep it in special conditions? With time, as the cells age, would you lose performance?
Once a bunch of nuclear warheads enter puberty we’re all fucked.
I’m so glad I just ordered all of those sweet Cronenburg shirts
The DishBrain’s advanced learning capabilities, in other words, could underpin a new generation of machine learning, particularly when embodied in autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots. It could give them, says Razi, “a new type of machine intelligence that is able to learn throughout its lifetime.”
literally motherfucking cylons, y’all
Keep them toasters outta my car!
