China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) 73
A group of some of China's smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world's youngest AI weapons scientists. Local media reports: The 27 boys and four girls, all aged 18 and under, were selected for the four-year "experimental programme for intelligent weapons systems" at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) from more than 5,000 candidates, the school said on its website. The BIT is one of the country's top weapons research institutes, and the launch of the new programme is evidence of the weight it places on the development of AI technology for military use. China is in competition with the United States and other nations in the race to develop deadly AI applications -- from nuclear submarines with self-learning chips to microscopic robots that can crawl into human blood vessels.
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Hmm can see this on the front page already :)
Slashdot has been hiring all the most intellectual children to help staff their editorial roles and make sure duplicates don't get posted to the front page... so you must be wrong.
Oh no, again? (Score:3)
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
Shit editors. (Score:5, Insightful)
Shit editors don't even check the last 10 stories to make sure what they are posting doesn't already have 100+ comments ON THE FRONT PAGE.
Re:Shit editors. (Score:4, Funny)
Making a script that checks if an URL has been posted recently before is an impossible task, I guess.
Re:Shit editors. (Score:5, Funny)
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Flash is dead, both Apple and Adobe confirmed it.
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Oh no run away horrible joke thread!
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Did you check the comments of the last story that was posted? It's a perfect demonstration of why Slashdot needs to drop the ability to post AC...
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No, it's another one of the "known oppressor oppresses its citizens" so I would expect no less. And I kind of like the fact that there are still places that don't force you to give information to post a comment. Even if it's mostly used for spam and hate. I miss the old Internet.
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> And I kind of like the fact that there are still places that don't force you to give information to post a comment.
The problem with that is we now have bots and low effort sponsored shitposters flooding Slashdot. Like I said, go have a gander at that last thread to see exactly how bad it can be, literally dozens of the same post flooding the comments. That's either a bot or a really Patriotic Citizen in action.
You can miss the old Internet all you want, it sadly won't bring it back. And letting the
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Shit editors don't even check the last 10 stories to make sure what they are posting doesn't already have 100+ comments ON THE FRONT PAGE.
The Slashdot editors are hard at work, so please forgive them.
In the mean time, please, take a relaxing read of one of our latest stories: China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' [slashdot.org]
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huh (Score:5, Insightful)
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Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
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Workers at tech companies refuse to help their country defend themselves against these advancements because of a knee-jerk reaction of hating the military.
Defend? Yeah, OK. Much like the nuclear arms race, we both know damn well the only good defense is a good offense, so you can put down the patriotic paintbrush. There's no innocent picture to paint here on either side.
Developing killer AI weapons isn't exactly a race to the bottom that many want to participate in, even the most patriotic. Many are still sitting on the sidelines in disbelief wondering if we should ever cross that damn line, because intelligent people know what this shit leads to. And w
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Well done! Of the 26 comments posted so far, yours is the only one that addresses the story and contributes intelligent insights.
Slashdot badly needs a button that takes you past the however-many-dozen irrelevant comments to the first ones that are worth reading. Attention is THE scarce resource.
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Slashdot badly needs a button that takes you past the however-many-dozen irrelevant comments to the first ones that are worth reading. Attention is THE scarce resource.
Interesting. Could be a candidate for machine learning and NLP.
Seems tough though, how could an AI ever realize that the one line comment "Sort of an Ender's Game ..." is on topic and interesting without an understanding of the book?
Would seem to almost require a human level intelligence!
Too soon! (Score:2)
Dupes were better back before dicedot. #cowboyneal
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Don't pretend the left likes Session. He's a horrible person. But at least he has just enough integrity not to interfere with the investigation. Whoever Trump is going to replace him with, is probably not going to have such scruples. The people aren't protesting the firing of a wannabe-Hitler, they're protesting the obstruction of justice that's certain to follow.
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I'm "Hitler-like" for wanting justice done? You make no sense.
I want all these fascists out. Replacing one with another isn't going to fix anything.
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"Literally Hitler"? Are you really that kind of person?
I want justice done. Nobody believes that Trump is firing Sessions because of his horrible child separation policy, and Trump and many of his supporters have defended that policy. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he his firing Sessions for the one single good thing Sessions has done: allowing an independent investigation to continue. If you do not think that the next step is going to be the appointment of an AG who will help Trump in obstructing
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Delete this or merge it.
It's bad enough that almost every article is fucking clickbait to begin with, we don't need duplicate clickbait articles. Seriously this place is going to shit.
Interesting use of authority (Score:2)
One thing that I think is going to make China the dominant global power in the mid-to-late 21st century -- besides a massive population advantage -- is their government structure. If they want a cyber-weapons program, that's what they'll get.
Like it or not, the way things are set up now in China is incredibly efficient. Anywhere else, there would be years of debate over any decision. With both economic and political control, decisions that just can't be made anywhere else are simply made by decree and done.
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China was crippled by corruption and is now slowly cleaning up it's act. The US is now crippled by corruption and it is getting worse. AI in most instance is not smarter than insects and that is pretty much what you strive to mimic for most functions. Of course hive minded insects with limited communications but enabling swarm activities is the goal, no more complex than that. The US can try to solve these problems but the levels and corruption and unlimited greed mean, failure is now the norm, not just bec
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Why are you even talking. Whatever else, China is economically more free than it was, and is reaping the rewards. Is that "less corruption"? I dunno, but your comment is useless.
Universal concept with very suspect reporting (Score:2)
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And they intend to be the ones to release the nanobots to kill everyone except dear leader for life.
New Headline... (Score:2)
China's Smartest Students Are Being Recruited To Check Slashdot For Dupes.
-k.