The company’s name isn’t Cyberdyne Systems and the system they’ve developed isn’t called SkyNet, but I still found the headline, “US Army Gets Artificial Intelligence” a little bit disturbing. Ariston Consulting and ai-one, have apparently got together to supply Uncle Sam’s foot soldiers with, “machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed systems.”
The companies in questions have developed tools to enable developers of military code to build machine learning into their applications in order that they can recognize patterns and associations like a human does. It gets better. ai-one reckon that their software is better because it learns without any human intervention. They reckon that their AI software, “detects the inherent structure of data in very complex environments so computers can recognize patterns and associations.” That’s great, does it also send a robot army to destroy mankind?
Amongst the companies plans for the future are AI analysis of threat patterns in cyber security, cataloging radio signals and network monitoring and management. The companies make a lot of noise about how much this will save the tax-payer (10% according to the press release) but it doesn’t mention what happens when the AI invades global cyber systems, gains control of nuclear launch codes and begins Judgement Day. You heard it here first folks. I’m Reese. Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You’ve been targeted for termination.
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