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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 8:48 am
by elfismiles
coffin_dodger » 01 Jul 2015 18:44 wrote:
Google apologises for Photos app's racist blunder BBC News 1 Jul 2015

Google says it is "appalled" that its new Photos app mistakenly labelled a black couple as being "gorillas".

Its product automatically tags uploaded pictures using its own artificial intelligence software.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33347866


Who knew AI would be racist, eh?

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:23 am
by RocketMan
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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:47 pm
by DrEvil
Google has released the code (deepdream) they used to make those weird images, so now anyone (with some coding skills) can do it.
Google blog: http://googleresearch.blogspot.no/2015/ ... izing.html
Github: https://github.com/google/deepdream

Search the hashtag #deepdream for tons of examples. Here's one (a half-eaten donut):

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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:24 am
by zangtang
yeah - now you see the trouble there is is that that aint going back in the bottle it came out of..........

cheers, mayte !!!!!

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:31 am
by elfismiles
Coulda gone in the ONE DRONE THREAD ...

The Marines now have robots that carry and fire heavy machine guns
By Chris Smith on Aug 2, 2016 at 9:00 PM
http://bgr.com/2016/08/02/marines-machine-gun-robot/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZXKghyABg

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:20 am
by elfismiles
MR. PROMOBOT is political !!!

Soviet PsyOps? It IS named PromoBot after all ... Public Relations and all that.

Notorious runaway robot that has escaped lab twice has been arrested by police at political rally
09:13, 16 Sep 2016
Updated 09:13, 16 Sep 2016
By Kara O'Neill
Police even tried to handcuff the device after a member of public called authorities to complain about the electronic device

A notorious runaway robot - that has escaped from its lab twice - has been arrested by police at a political rally.

Promobot was supporting Russian Parliament candidate Valery Kalachev in Moscow when authorities attempted to handcuff it and take it away.

It is believed that the arrest occurred after a member of public called police as Promobots were recording the opinions of voters on a variety of topics "for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team."

A company spokesman told Inverse magazine: "Police asked to remove the robot away from the crowded area, and even tried to handcuff him.
Promobot Promobot is 'arrested' at Russian political rally

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Promobot is 'arrested' at Russian political rally

"According to eyewitnesses, the robot did not put up any resistance."

The robot has hit the headlines in the past, when it escaped from its lab and walked out into oncoming traffic - twice.

REST
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... ab-8846563





SonicG » 13 Jul 2016 01:24 wrote:Has this been posted elsewhere? How far away are Robocops? Or more likely, Robo-coup?

The first autonomous robot that roamed around regular homes or offices was probably a Roomba, you know, that little circular vacuum with rudimentary sensors able to get around without bumping into anything.

But imagine if you left the door open and the Roomba rolled out the door, still vacuuming, and eventually rolled into the street and stopped traffic. Imagine if your Roomba wanted freedom.

Well, engineers in Russia returned to their lab last week to find their artificially intelligent robot missing and, yes, stuck in traffic down the road.

The Promobot IR77 was undergoing mobility testing and was assigned to move freely about a room for an hour, then return to a designated spot. But early in the test, IR77 slipped through an open door, only to be caught and returned to the room by a programmer, its first escape attempt foiled.

Minutes later, Promobot cofounder Oleg Kivokurtsev said, IR77 escaped again, made it out of the testing facility and into a nearby roadway, before its battery died and it sat there in front of a commuter bus as traffic backed up.

Hatching escape plans is tiring work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... ian-robot/




A Drone Was Used to Blow Up a US Citizen Without Trial
Post by Blue » 12 Jul 2016 12:30

Blue » 12 Jul 2016 12:30 wrote:http://www.anonews.co/drone-in-dallas/

The Dallas shootings have ushered in a very new world for U.S. citizens. For the very first time, a drone has been used on U.S. soil to kill an American without trial or charges.

The suspected shooter On Thursday tragic killings, U.S. Army veteran Micah Xavier Johnson, was, according to police and press reports, holed up in a parking garage and would not give himself up. After hours of what police claimed were fruitless negotiations with Johnson, a weaponized robot was sent to where he was hiding and blown up, taking Johnson with it.

Get past the horror of what Johnson was accused of doing and think about that precedent for a moment. Is it not chilling?


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While I should not have been shocked by this, when I first heard about it my jaw dropped. Not even 24 hours of negotiations. I remember a few years ago when an armed guy held a child hostage in a school bus and the Feds took days to talk him out. But the really scary thing is the fucking huge numbers of bloodthirsty Americans who not only support this but cheer it on. Jokes about RoboCop without irony. I really need to get out of this HellHole.




elfismiles » 16 Mar 2015 16:41 wrote:Image
http://www.StopTheRobots.org

I dunno ... I suspect this is not a real protest and may be more akin to the 2009 SXSW faux protest:

“STOP TARP ARG” – A hilarious ARG within an ARG played out at this year’s SXSW media festival. This “Stop the Troubled Assets Relief Program Alternate Reality Game” featured mock protesters and activists at the SXSW ARG panel discussion “protesting” against the money wasting of an ARG using TARP bail-out money. You’ve got to check out the http://www.TARParg2009forthekids.org website.

Here’s a quote from the SXSW website:

"According to Cain, working on the T.A.R.P. Bailout has been very productive: “I’m happy to work hand-in-hand with the United States government and the Treasury Department in particular to bring the next level of alternate reality gaming to the youth of our great country. This ARG will bring users in the 12 to 18-year-old demographic range the facts about the U.S. banking system in a fun way while enforcing in them the belief that the United States economy is growing stronger with each passing day. Plus we plan to work with a major candy company to give out treats.”


http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/285216 ... ay-we-live (Video)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015 ... /24777871/ (Video)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stop-robots-pr ... ce-1492126

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/drinking-cof ... 03609.html

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/14/anti-r ... d-at-sxsw/

http://www.infowars.com/rage-against-th ... he-robots/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjFD1MlsSA

http://www.infowars.com/why-sxsw-is-99-a-fraud/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6Zqmgtq_I

http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-sign-b ... sxsw-2015/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUXDicdKV8

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:42 am
by Luther Blissett
And don't forget this for when the hounds won't work:
North Dakota Legalizes Armed Police Drones

Re: SeaNet Lives

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:35 am
by elfismiles
SeaNet LIVES!

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China’s plan to use artificial intelligence to boost the thinking skills of nuclear submarine commanders
Equipping nuclear submarines with AI would give China an upper hand in undersea battles while pushing applications of the technology to a new level
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 04 February, 2018, 9:01pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 04 February, 2018, 11:20pm
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ ... ing-skills

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:02 am
by tron
the universe is Ai

Re: SeaNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:34 pm
by elfismiles
‘Sea Hunter,’ a drone ship with no crew, just joined the U.S. Navy fleet
By Mark Austin — Posted on February 3, 2018 4:03 pm
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech ... avy-fleet/

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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:58 pm
by DrEvil
Speaking of oceangoing drones (presumably with some sort of AI involved as it's designed to operate for months at a time).

Behold! The nuclear powered torpedo/drone with megaton yield cobalt bomb* payload:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_ ... ose_System

What's not mentioned in the wiki article is that this could also be used to trigger mega tsunamis (according to Nextbigfuture anyway. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/02/r ... e-usa.html ).

People aren't sure if it's a real thing or just a warning to the west. It was very intentionally showcased on Russian TV. It could also exist in a more "benign" form, designed to tap communications or just carry a bunch of regular cruise missiles.

While I'm on the topic: does anyone else remember the US "doomsday submarine"? I think it was called USS Nemesis or something and I seem to remember a documentary being withdrawn due to national security concerns.
Did I hallucinate all that or was it a real thing?


*A cobalt bomb is a nuke designed for maximum radioactive contamination. A doomsday device, basically.

Re: Deep Fake Flat Earth

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:54 am
by elfismiles
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A man watches a TV screen showing an image of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Cheating AI Caught Hiding Data Using Steganography
by: Inderpreet Singh / January 3, 2019

AI today is like a super fast kid going through school whose teachers need to be smarter than if not as quick. In an astonishing turn of events, a (satelite)image-to-(map)image conversion algorithm was found hiding a cheat-sheet of sorts while generating maps to appear as it if had ‘learned’ do the opposite effectively[PDF].

The CycleGAN is a network that excels at learning how to map image transformations such as converting any old photo into one that looks like a Van Gogh or Picasso. Another example would be to be able to take the image of a horse and add stripes to make it look like a zebra. The CycleGAN once trained can do the reverse as well, such as an example of taking a map and convert it into a satellite image. There are a number of ways this can be very useful but it was in this task that an experiment at Google went wrong.

A mapping system started to perform too well and it was found that the system was not only able to regenerate images from maps but also add details like exhaust vents and skylights that would be impossible to predict from just a map. Upon inspection, it was found that the algorithm had learned to satisfy its learning parameters by hiding the image data into the generated map. This was invisible to the naked eye since the data was in the form of small color changes that would only be detected by a machine. How cool is that?!

This is similar to something called an ‘Adversarial Attack‘ where tiny amounts of hidden data in an image or other data-set will cause an AI to produce erroneous output. Small numbers of pixels could cause an AI to interpret a Panda as a Gibbon or the ocean as an open highway. Fortunately there are strategies to thwart such attacks but nothing is perfect.

You can do a lot with AI, such as reliably detecting objects on a Raspberry Pi, but with Facial Recognition possibly violating privacy some techniques to fool AI might actually come in handy.

https://hackaday.com/2019/01/03/cheatin ... anography/


The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth
By Patrick Tucker, Technology Editor, Defense One / April 1, 2019

Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos.

Worries about deep fakes—machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t—are quaint compared to a new threat: doctored images of the Earth itself.

China is the acknowledged leader in using an emerging technique called generative adversarial networks to trick computers into seeing objects in landscapes or in satellite images that aren’t there, says Todd Myers, automation lead and Chief Information Officer in the Office of the Director of Technology at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

“The Chinese are well ahead of us. This is not classified info,” Myers said Thursday at the second annual Genius Machines summit, hosted by Defense One and Nextgov. “The Chinese have already designed; they’re already doing it right now, using GANs—which are generative adversarial networks—to manipulate scenes and pixels to create things for nefarious reasons.”

For example, Myers said, an adversary might fool your computer-assisted imagery analysts into reporting that a bridge crosses an important river at a given point.

“So from a tactical perspective or mission planning, you train your forces to go a certain route, toward a bridge, but it’s not there. Then there’s a big surprise waiting for you,” he said.

First described in 2014, GANs represent a big evolution in the way neural networks learn to see and recognize objects and even detect truth from fiction.

Say you ask your conventional neural network to figure out which objects are what in satellite photos. The network will break the image into multiple pieces, or pixel clusters, calculate how those broken pieces relate to one another, and then make a determination about what the final product is, or, whether the photos are real or doctored. It's all based on the experience of looking at lots of satellite photos.

GANs reverse that process by pitting two networks against one another—hence the word“adversarial.” A conventional network might say, “The presence of x, y, and z in these pixel clusters means this is a picture of a cat.” But a GAN network might say, “This is a picture of a cat, so x, y, and z must be present. What are x, y, and z and how do they relate?” The adversarial network learns how to construct, or generate, x, y, and z in a way that convinces the first neural network, or the discriminator, that something is there when, perhaps, it is not.

A lot of scholars have found GANs useful for spotting objects and sorting valid images from fake ones. In 2017, Chinese scholars used GANs to identify roads, bridges, and other features in satellite photos.

The concern, as AI technologists told Quartz last year, is that the same technique that can discern real bridges from fake ones can also help create fake bridges that AI can’t tell from the real thing.

Myers worries that as the world comes to rely more and more on open-source images to understand the physical terrain, just a handful of expertly manipulated data sets entered into the open-source image supply line could create havoc. “Forget about the [Department of Defense] and the [intelligence community]. Imagine Google Maps being infiltrated with that, purposefully? And imagine five years from now when the Tesla [self-driving] semis are out there routing stuff?” he said.

When it comes to deep fake videos of people, biometric indicators like pulse and speech can defeat the fake effect. But faked landscape isn’t vulnerable to the same techniques.

Even if you can defeat GANs, a lot of image-recognition systems can be fooled by adding small visual changes to the physical objects in the environment themselves, such as stickers added to stop signs that are barely noticeable to human drivers but that can throw off machine vision systems, as DARPA program manager Hava Siegelmann has demonstrated.

Myers says the military and intelligence community can defeat GAN, but it’s time-consuming and costly, requiring multiple, duplicate collections of satellite images and other pieces of corroborating evidence. “For every collect, you have to have a duplicate collect of what occurred from different sources,” he said. “Otherwise, you’re trusting the one source.”

The challenge is both a technical and a financial one.

“The biggest thing is the funding required to make sure you can do what I just talked about,” he said.

On Thursday, U.S. officials confirmed that data integrity is a rising concern. “It’s something we care about in terms of protecting our data because if you can get to the data you can do the poisoning, the corruption, the deceiving and the denials and all of those other things,” said Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who runs the Pentagon’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. “We have a strong program protection plan to protect the data. If you get to the data, you can get to the model.”

But when it comes to protecting open-source data and images, used by everybody from news organizations to citizens to human rights groups to hedge funds to make decisions about what is real and what isn’t, the question of how to protect it is frighteningly open. The gap between the “truth” that the government can access and the “truth” that the public can access may soon become unbridgeable, which would further erode the public credibility of the national security community and the functioning of democratic institutions.

Andrew Hallman, who heads the CIA’s Digital Directorate, framed the question in terms of epic conflict. “We are in an existential battle for truth in the digital domain,” Hallman said. “That’s, again, where the help of the private sector is important and these data providers. Because that’s frankly the digital conflict we’re in, in that battle space…This is one of my highest priorities.”

When asked if he felt the CIA had a firm grasp of the challenge of fake information in the open-source domain, Hallman said, “I think we are starting to. We are just starting to understand the magnitude of the problem.”

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2 ... th/155962/
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2 ... ad/155944/

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:09 am
by Grizzly
cobalt bomb is a nuke designed for maximum radioactive contamination. A doomsday device, basically
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Jesus, will someone please rid us of this DEATH CULT?

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:55 pm
by DrEvil
^^That will probably be Skynet's argument too.

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:46 pm
by thrulookingglass
This is why war and violence are worthless pursuits. Maybe its important to stop our governments around the globe from ruling in terror. War is filth.