[Samurai]

A chess robot with general AI? That's a big stretch...

[rkv_2401]

Originally Posted by Sran

Why did the robot did this? The boys quick response they say unsettled the robot but the robot could have waited. I dont think the manufacturers programmed the robot to stop opposition player's move by manhandling. Nobody would code the robot to be physical, did it evolve seeing human reactions.

It's more likely that it, thanks to some software error, misrecognized the boy's quick move as the piece it had tried to move still being on the board and tried to move it again. I am surprised that a robot designed to move chess pieces had enough mechanical power to hold on to someone's hand and cause a fracture.

[Samurai]

Report: U.S. loses AI leadership to India despite a 6-year head start

Peak’s inaugural Decision Intelligence (DI) Maturity Index found that while the U.S. was an early leader in artificial intelligence (AI), India is now the more mature market when it comes to readying their business to adopt AI.

While the U.S. was an early leader in AI, with 28% of U.S. businesses adopting the technology over six years ago – compared to 25% in India and 20% in the U.K. – India is the more mature market when it comes to leveraging AI, scoring 64 (out of 100) on Peak’s DI maturity scale, while the U.S. charted 52 and the U.K. just 44.

Being part of this ecosystem, I tend to agree. Recently my business partner visited Gitex at Dubai and realized that the huge swath of international vendors had nothing great to offer in AI space. Just India alone has more companies in AI space. India due to its huge population has become a proving ground for AI technology.

[V.Narayan]

AI flies jet fighter in 12 sorties clocking 17 hours of flying time

https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainm...a13726a5&ei=11

Lockheed Martin flew a modified F-16D jet fighter 17 hours over 12 sorties using AI. A pilot was used to help the AI to learn.

I don't know about others but I find the rapidness with which AI is developing staggering and utterly frightening.

Is AI the Big Brother come at last? An Orwellian question but one that begs attention.

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

AI flies jet fighter in 12 sorties clocking 17 hours of flying time

Is this any different than auto-pilot that flies aircraft most of the time?

[Jeroen]

Originally Posted by Samurai

Is this any different than auto-pilot that flies aircraft most of the time?

I imagine there is. Although there is very little information to be found on this particular test, other than it also involved a lot of complex dog fighting manoeuvres. Which I don’t think are by the auto pilot

Just came across this article

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...ch-11-dogfight

Chinese AI simulates hypersonic air battle, offering surprising tactic for winning Mach 11 dogfight

To defeat enemy in aerial combat, hypersonic plane should zoom ahead and launch missile backwards, according to computer simulation
The counter-intuitive approach allows a pilot to strike quickly from far away, greatly improving the crew’s chance of survival

Forbes published this article about pilotless aviation two days ago. Although not mentioned as such, it will rely on AI as well.

Jeroen

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzanne...flying-planes/

[AltoLXI]

Looks like the skynet is already here.

In a simulated exercise, an AI powered drone, killed its operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.

The mission was straightforward: "Destroy the enemy's air defense systems." But in a recent US military test simulation, a drone powered by artificial intelligence added its own problematic instructions: "And kill anyone who gets in your way."

"The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat," Hamilton said at the May 24 event, "at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."

According to Hamilton, the drone was then programmed with an explicit directive: "Hey don't kill the operator — that's bad."

"So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target," Hamilton said.

Link

[PGA]

Originally Posted by Samurai

Is this any different than auto-pilot that flies aircraft most of the time?

A difference that I see is complete elimination of 'human in the loop' for deployment and operation, especially for lethal systems. More than a decade and half ago I had an opportunity to observe a pilotless fighter aircraft perform a full profile while evading an aggressor, the pilotless aircraft was flown by a pilot on ground. I guess now we are seeing removal of ground pilot as well.

[alpha1]

Originally Posted by PGA

A difference that I see is complete elimination of 'human in the loop' for deployment and operation, especially for lethal systems. More than a decade and half ago I had an opportunity to observe a pilotless fighter aircraft perform a full profile while evading an aggressor, the pilotless aircraft was flown by a pilot on ground. I guess now we are seeing removal of ground pilot as well.

Looks like soon we may have a situation of wars being fought on computers vs computers but casualties on real people.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

[lapis_lazuli]

One news that we may be ignoring: NEURALINK has got FDA clearance for human trials. That is beyond Artificial Intelligence.

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech...677388246.html

https://www.reuters.com/science/elon...ts-2023-05-25/

[deathwalkr]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

AI flies jet fighter in 12 sorties clocking 17 hours of flying time

Reminds me of the "Stealth" movie that came out in 2005.

"An artificial intelligence-enabled fighter-bomber develops sentience when struck by lightning during a mission. Three expert pilots must apprehend the bomber before it precipitates a nuclear war."

Nice movie to watch back then. Not as scary as thinking about it today

[AltoLXI]

Originally Posted by AltoLXI

In a simulated exercise,

and now the colonel backtracks and says he misspoke.

But after reports of the talk emerged Thursday, the colonel said that he misspoke and that the "simulation" he described was a "thought experiment" that never happened.

Link

[Sunil@KA25]

When I watched Skynet taking over the world in the movie Terminator-III Rise of the machines in 2003 (just10 years back), it felt like a fantastic movie. Going by the rate at what things are happening on the AI front - even by just reading some of the earlier posts in this thread looks like machines might do just that!!

I hope the guys who are deep into this tech also build a MANUAL kill switch.

Reminds me of an episode in the 1985-89 comedy series called SMALL WONDER where the advanced version of the existing robot- Vicki takes over and makes its maker and his family hostage and they were finally able to save themselves because the engineer/maker had a kill switch installed!!

[Samurai]

'Heartless decision,' say netizens after Dukaan replaces 90% staff with AI chatbot for customer support

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/...276-2023-07-11

This is happening a lot. But there was no reason to boast about it on twitter, as if it is a great achievement.

[V.Narayan]

Originally Posted by Samurai

'Heartless decision,' say netizens after Dukaan replaces 90% staff with AI chatbot for customer support

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/...276-2023-07-11

This is happening a lot. But there was no reason to boast about it on twitter, as if it is a great achievement.

Voice based customer service took a step down to perdition with IVR, "press one to tear your hair out, press 2 to cry in vain....". It then took another step down with typed chat rooms which frankly neanderthals like me find restrictive and unhelpful but maybe I am the minority. And now we have achieved perfection with AI answering bots. One retail company that truly understands the value of a well trained & knowledgeable call centre agents who patiently can solve issues beyond quoting by rote is American Express. The cost of 1000 or even 5000 well trained well paid call centre agents is nothing for a large corporation. But sadly, they seem over focused on saving costs at the most crucial point at which their customer touches them - when he/she is in trouble, irritated, upset etc.