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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's smart enough to fly a drone and return it to base for a recharge.

It's smart enough to detect/track a human.

I'm far less worried that it might decide to kill us and WAY more worried that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It’s smart enough to fly a drone and return it to base for a recharge.

It's not.

These tools are consistently just proxies for cheap overseas manual labor. AI is consistently augmented by mirrored human actions and often just a fascade - a juiced up mechanical turk.

WAY more worried that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

If Lavendar AI is any indication of how these tools will be used, they are far more often employed as propaganda - whitewashing war crimes by generating fake accusations of imminent danger and intelligence data.

You'll still be killed by a human. Maybe a manual operator. Maybe a human guided missile. Maybe just some asshole with a gun.

The AI will then fabricate the reason for your murder and feed it to the bureaucracy that helps pacify anyone who might object to your death.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

Or that they'll just be lazy and sloppy.

In movies you used to sometimes see someone put a brick on a car's gas pedal so they could send it through a wall, or into a lake, or whatever. In a comedy, you sometimes used to see someone rig up something so that their car could drive while they slept.

Running AI "agents" is basically like opening up some application that has a lot of keyboard shortcuts to run various scripts and then putting a brick on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, we're now at a stage where some people think that's a good idea. The machines aren't capable of thought, they have no desires or goals. But, if some of those scripts instruct a drone to go out and kill someone, the brick on the keyboard can get someone killed.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

The machines aren’t capable of thought

They aren't, but they do a damn good job at reading inputs, following a document of instructions, and using control output.

Setting a waypoint, retrieving imagery, using machine vision to identify a human is an easily wrote task.

Having Claude code write an app to run on a pc to do all that is trivial.

The other stuff is just something the military already does redily