Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by panic on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:02PM (#13241633)

It's a military AI that correctly interprets a command to kill a particular group of people, so effectively that its masters start thinking about the next group, and the next.

This has been done many times by human-run militaries; would AI make it worse somehow?

Groups of humans acting collectively can look a lot like an "AI" from the right perspective. Corporations focused on optimizing their profit spend a huge amount of collective intelligence to make this single number go up, often at the expense of the rest of society.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by citrin_ru on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:03PM (#13241963)

> This has been done many times by human-run militaries; would AI make it worse somehow?

Solders in developed countries no longer want to die en masse.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by LyndsySimon on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:56PM (#13242935)

Soldiers in developed countries no longer have to die en masse. Compare US and Iraqi casualties.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by alexbecker on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:19PM (#13241725)

I don't think AI will cause a paradigm shift here; but like most powerful technologies, I imagine it will have potent military applications.

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