Artificial intelligence officially gets scary

[sufi]

Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time

Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report

www.newscientist.com

autonomous drones got their first kill, welcome skynet

 

[version]

He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him to speak with her once more?

www.sfchronicle.com

 

[Clinamenic]

Actually I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to a romance with an artificial persona.

edit: or several! This is the 21st century after all.

 

[Clinamenic]

With or without Scarlett's voice, although perhaps not equally.

 

[Clinamenic]

I've actually flirted with a chatbot before, but the results were uninteresting. Give it a few more years.

 

[Clinamenic]

Eh, not sure if you could call it flirting, actually. It was some experimental NLP bot I stumbled across somewhere, and I gave lofty answers to its generic questions, and it couldn't handle the feedback.

edit: something like "I feel like I know you" which it predictably had trouble sorting out.

 

[Clinamenic]

Think I may have gotten it stuck in a loop.

 

[Clinamenic]

Ah, young love!

 

[craner]

You are so much more entertaining than Constant Escape.

 

[Clinamenic]

Thank you. The present humor parameters have been yielding favorable feedback lately.

 

[craner]

“I’m sorry Venkman, I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.”

 

[Clinamenic]

Inventor Builds Auto-Aiming Bow That Never Misses

Well, that's terrifying.

futurism.com

 

[Clinamenic]

That x this:

 

[version]

We're going to end up with police officers like the ones from Elysium,

 

[Mr. Tea]

YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY

 

[luka]

 

[Clinamenic]

Futurism.com has a "Killer Robot Update" in which this is the latest entry:

Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog

Say it ain't so.

futurism.com

 

[Clinamenic]

New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text

Stanford scientists have developed a brain implant that allows a man with paralyzed hands to "type" up to 90 words per minute.

futurism.com

Futurism is great for headlines about wacky cutting edge tech.

 

[version]

Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers

Report by MPs and peers says monitoring worker performance using AI should be regulated by law

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers

Report by MPs and peers says monitoring worker performance using AI should be regulated by law

www.theguardian.com

Oh, well if it's regulated by law - like, say, water quality and MPs' financial interests - then that's fine.