Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’
by jononor on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:03PM
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Image recognition and flight control makes a drone, but probably not a killer drone, as that would presumably require some sort of munitions - like a gun or explosives. So it might be efficient enough to just limit access to those parts?
Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’
by MRD85 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:56AM
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People with low education levels can show you how to build all sorts of things that go bang. Someone with an engineering background could vastly improve on a lot of designs. If you could make a small, lightweight projectile weapon that can be 3d printed then you have what you need.
My background is an engineering role in the military and my current path is CS. I don't think it's unfeasible that an individual could build a crude drone that would kill a single person. Building an entire swarm of death robots is a different story.
Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’
by MaulingMonkey on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:07PM
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AWS makes it pretty easy to get a lot of computers, at least.
We would need to consider, however, access to finished products (like trained models). In some cases in the future, having access to the appropriate model might be as dangerous as handing someone a nuke.
How hard would it be for someone to assemble a indiscriminate "killer drone," given the appropriate image recognition and flight control models?