General Skynet becomes self-aware

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ShatsBassoon

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The Terminator franchise wouldn’t be complete without the series arch-villain. As it turns out, Skynet is already here, and according to Ars Technica, it’s already killed “thousands of people”:

“SkyNet engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan’s mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 million people to try and rate each person’s likelihood of being a terrorist.”
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Today’s SkyNet is an NSA surveillance program that isn’t self-aware, and it doesn’t directly control weapons systems — unlike the ambitious Strategic Computing project, back when DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s:

“The system was supposed to create a world where autonomous vehicles not only provide intelligence on any enemy worldwide, but could strike with deadly precision from land, sea, and air. It was to be a global network that connected every aspect of the U.S. military’s technological capabilities — capabilities that depended on new, impossibly fast computers.”
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Those impossibly fast computers exist today, and DARPA hasn’t given up on the idea, they’ve simply rebranded it “Assured Autonomy”. The goal remains the same: creating systems able to “accomplish goals independently, or with minimal supervision from human operators in environments that are complex and unpredictable.”
 
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Fun fact: In 'The Terminator' when Arnie says "I'll be back" it's actually foreshadowing when he comes back, later on in the movie.
 
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Wintermute

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They have mounted guns on those robot "dogs" Boston Dynamic made, if I'm not mistaken. Narrow AI is also already in-use; Google driverless cars, Google search, etc are all AI powered. Considering the military is usually about 10 years ahead of civilian-use tech, I'd say they are using wide AI already.
 
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Wintermute said:
They have mounted guns on those robot "dogs" Boston Dynamic made, if I'm not mistaken. Narrow AI is also already in-use; Google driverless cars, Google search, etc are all AI powered. Considering the military is usually about 10 years ahead of civilian-use tech, I'd say they are using wide AI already.
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Don't forget Tesla's driverless mode

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