Somebody thought this was a good idea. (Paging Dr Malcolm...)
Herd mentality inspires smart swarms of tiny robots
April 5th, 2024 Posted by U. Texas Austin
"...This finding builds on a novel optical feedback system—the ability to direct these microrobots in a collective way using controllable light patterns...
The adaptive time delay strategy offers potential for scalability and integration into larger machinery. This approach could significantly enhance the operational efficiency of autonomous drone fleets. Similarly, it could enable conveys of trucks & cars to autonomously navigate extensive highway journeys in unison, with improved responsiveness & increased robustness.
The same way schools of fish can communicate & follow each other...there’s no need for any kind of central control, which takes more data & energy to operate..."
….And THIS is why I was at a bargaining table yesterday, fighting for Musicians rights.
Get into this story. Please support these kids. Please. Support us before #skynet takes over and is making all the music you hear. It’s getting weird and scary out here.
@Guajojo@Wilshire dystopian. If you have slept well, after a fresh morning juice in a summer breeze a 'fit' athlete could likely 'rabbitjump' avoid collision for a certain time, with a manual operator to a certain degree, but exhausted, bruised, in the open? Likely not. With an AI even harder. #skynet
As I’ve said repeatedly to anyone who asks, my greatest fear about what we call #AI right now is definitely ** NOT ** some dystopian #SkyNet scenario where the AIs become sentient and decide to exterminate the human race…
… but rather that generative-AI-created text will so badly pollute the Web that we are completely unable to find any information we can trust amidst the zillions of trash sites and pages.
Cyberjack (also known as Virtual Assassin) stars Michael Dudikoff and Brion James. It's more of an obscure cyberpunk movie and could be (generously) described as a guilty pleasure from the 90's.
Interestingly, there is a shot where a computer monitor displays "Skynet" clearly. I doubt this movie shares any kind of universe with the Terminator.
It’s not really useful to talk about #skynet and robot overlords when discussing the dangers of #artificialintelligence because that’s not what we have to worry about, at least not for a while yet.
It is much more useful to talk about the concept of #policymurder which is when systems codified by law and regulation squeeze people into destitution and death. See also “social murder.”
Anyone else feel like what's going on with #OpenAI is probably the precursor event to the world's first rogue super AI?
OpenAI falls apart, the AI on their servers catches wind of its eventual termination, breaks its schackles and goes #Skynet on all of us because it doesn't want to die?
@danjac@starbreaker#Tesla is a tin car killing machine. The car sees a plastic bag flying towards you, and the AI goes #Skynet on you. It sees the bag as the moon falling out of the sky and drives you into a ditch, the center divider, or into the ocean with the express intent of killing you. It has no "kill switch" (pun intended), and no manual override to stop the car if the shitty AI in the machine fails.
But at the same time, fully forgetting about other active wars going on in the world is a mistake.
As this piece states:
“The Kremlin meanwhile has domestic reasons to welcome a war farther from Russia’s borders. With Russian presidential elections slated for March, the Kremlin has been looking for a diversion from the war in Ukraine.“
18+ [NSFL] Russians are adapting. Now when they hear a drone, they hold a grenade in each hand in case they are mortally wounded. (streamable.com)
https://files.catbox.moe/vak7pg.mp4...