It has begun.
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That’d be funny if it wasn’t so scary
@Tons_of_fun - have you booked your place in the field of skulls?
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Very US of A though. When you’ve got an entity that you don’t understand properly, what do you do to find out how it might behave ? You give it guns, of course, because guns are the answer to everything.
(OK, they were virtual guns, so the idea wasn’t quite as dumb as it sounds.)
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Take all the military red herring stuff away and what the softwas was programmed to do was to earn points in exchange for actions. Not very artificial nor very intelligent. Someone actually allowed the game to deduct points for removing its own safeguard control system. All the dumb is human.
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Should also add if you have no control over a weapon prior to a human confirming a target you’ve also made an illegal weapon outwith the geneva convention.
At the very bottom of the article it even suggests that the whole story is a misunderstanding anyway. The military say no simulation like this was ever run and “It appears the colonel’s comments were taken out of context and were meant to be anecdotal.” There’s dumb here stretching from horizon to horizon …
I think they are very specific, they said they, ie the airforce, had not run such a simulation. That doesnt rule out research labs, univesities, non govermental bodies etc.
The beauty of seeking a place in the mountain of human skulls is that most of the recruitment stuff is done for you 
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Just dropping-in to leave the usual marker:
“I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.”
Cheers, Skully McSkullface 
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Meh, we will all be well and truly brown bread well before AI has a chance to off us, because one of the following:
A. WW3 Nuclear holocaust
B. Effects of global warming
C. Viral pandemic
No worries… 
D. cost of vinyl
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E (in the case of most meat men) Old Age
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Maybe that statement was put out by AI to cover as a double bluff?
This (if real) is amazing:
At 0:32, in English, he laughs. At the same point in German (somewhere around 1:45 ?) he doesn’t. So either the AI’s smart enough to know that Germans only laugh when someone mentions farts, or he’s trilingual and has recorded a good but not perfect repeat in each language. (At the same moment in French he doesn’t laugh either but he does do that thing where the pitch of his voice rises and falls through “je n’ai rien d’autre à dire” as a good French speaker’s might, and an English or German speaker’s probably wouldn’t.)
For a proper check you’d have to follow the movements of, say, his right hand when he’s waving it about to see if that was the same in all three versions. I’ve got better stuff to do though …
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Star Trek was cool. The money economy was eliminated, and machines and AI took care of all the mundane shit so we were free to follow our dreams having adventures as Starfleet Captains or Science Officers.
When the fucks that coming, eh? Eh?
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