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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by boomskats on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:57AM (#16957784)
At least there isn't anyone out there designing and manufacturing military grade weaponised drones and letting them autonomously decide whether to pull the trigger.

Right?

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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by chriskanan on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:09AM (#16957835)
I was once asked to do deep learning on a bomb for an SBIR. Not sure what the bomb was supposed to learn. Passed on that one.
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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by ccccccccccccc on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:05AM (#16957810)
I really wish we could know what is going through CEOs heads when they make statements like this while simultaneously contradicting themselves.
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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by baxtr on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:10AM (#16957850)
Probably he’s been already replaced by a replicant
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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by kuschku on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:05AM (#16957807)
No, of course not! The AI only has an "advisory" role: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-helping-the-p...
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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by mtgx on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:29AM (#16957985)
Oh, I get it. So Google's AI only "advises" the Pentagon who its targets should be, and then the Pentagon takes the huge engineering role of implementing "if Google advice = true, then launch missiles."

This way Google is completely "guilt-free" and can still pretend it's "making the world a better place" wink wink nudge nudge.

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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by majewsky on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:35AM (#16958443)
Let's hope that this is not C or C++, where "(foo = true)" always evaluates to true.
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Re:Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology ren... by kirubakaran on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:24AM (#16958756)
I get your joke, but the parent comment means "if the advice is from Google, then launch missiles", not "if it is a correct advice from Google, then launch missiles", so the assignment vs comparison question doesn't apply.
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