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Rise of machines
Rise Of The Machines
Itâs been over 35 years since The Terminator was released, and rather than a global moratorium on weaponized robots, weâre instead seeing an explosion of research into autonomous tanks, aircraft, humanoid robots, and AI software systems to pull the trigger.
Thereâs a grim irony in the fact that a cautionary tale about autonomous killing machines has turned into an arms race to see who can develop them first âand itâs even more ironic that the organizations developing these technologies reference the movie when describing their projects: F.E.D.O.R. â with a gun, but ânot a Terminatorâ.
FEDOR
In arecent tweet, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin described the âRobot platform F.E.D.O.R. showing shooting skills with two hands,â and quickly added, âwe are not creating a Terminator, but artificial intelligence that will be of great practical significance in various fields.â
Ostensibly,F.E.D.O.R.has been developed for rescue missions, and the prototype was even sent to the International Space Station to conduct repairs, but as The Independent has written, âmilitary uses have also been suggested by engineers.â
Atlas
Despite internet confusion from a viral hoax video by âBossTown Dynamicsâ, the realAtlasrobot developed by Boston Dynamics has never fired a gun â but it can run, do backflips, andparkour. Developed under grants byDARPA, this robot is also designed for disaster response, but that didnât stop ExtremeTech for describing it as a âReal World Terminatorâ, saying:
At 6â2âł and 330lbs, Atlas is incredibly imposingâŚwhile Atlas is initially conceived as a disaster response robot, such as cleaning up and looking for survivors after a Fukushima-like disaster, itâs easy to imagine Atlas being the basis of a robotic army.
TheMIS
Futurism.com described this robotic tank as being âstraight out of the Terminatorâ, and cited aC4ISRNETÂ article indicating that it was equipped with a 12.7mm machine gun & 40mm automatic grenade launcher in a recent demonstration.
Likened to theT-1 robot tankin Terminator 3, theMilrem TheMISis one of many robotic tanks currently under development, including theRipsaw M5 Robo-Tank,MiloĹĄ UGV,Gladiator TUGV,Foster-Miller TALON, and many more â all heavily armed, and currently all requiring a human operator to pilot them remotely.
The Predator Drone
The General AtomicsMQ-1 Predatordrone was designed in the â90s for reconnaissance, but within a decade the Air Force hadarmed itfor drone strikes, and created theMQ-9 Reaperas a successor â which the USAF Chief of Staff called âa true hunter-killer.â
The Guardian reports thatBritain is funding research into drones that decide who they kill, and of the36 countriescurrently using armed drones, analystPaul Scharresays itâs âvery likely that nations will invest in autonomous technology, if nothing else out of fear that their adversaries are doing so.â
Googlebacked out of drone research because of the ethical implications, but it hasnât stoppedmilitary organizationsfrom pursuing autonomous killing machines, which have the advantage of âfreeing current pilots from the moral responsibility of casualtiesâ.
SkyNet
The Terminator franchise wouldnât be complete without the series arch-villain. As it turns out,SkyNet is already here, and according toArs Technica, itâs already killed âthousands of peopleâ:
âSkyNet engages in mass surveillance of Pakistanâs mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 million people to try and rate each personâs likelihood of being a terrorist.â
Todayâs SkyNet is an NSA surveillance program that isnât self-aware, and it doesnât directly control weapons systems â unlike the ambitious Strategic Computing project, back whenDARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s:
âThe system was supposed to create a world where autonomous vehicles not only provide intelligence on any enemy worldwide, but could strike with deadly precision from land, sea, and air. It was to be a global network that connected every aspect of the U.S. militaryâs technological capabilities â capabilities that depended on new, impossibly fast computers.â
Thoseimpossibly fast computersexist today, and DARPA hasnât given up on the idea, theyâve simply rebranded it âAssured Autonomyâ. The goal remains the same: creating systems able to âaccomplish goals independently, or with minimal supervision from human operators in environments that are complex and unpredictable.â
Conclusion
As I said in the beginning, all the pieces for Judgement Day are in place. The nukes, the robots, the AI systems âitâs like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and the only thing missing is a few more years of R&D and the malevolent spark of machine intelligence willing to end the world.
Stephen Hawkingsaid, âThe development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,â andElon Muskconcurred â calling it humanityâs âbiggest existential threatâ. Both of them may be mistaken, but it begs the larger question:
If AI is dangerously unpredictable, why are we arming it?
Earlier I mentioned âfreeing current pilots from the moral responsibility of casualtiesâ, but the truth is they shouldnât be freed from it. The decision to take a human life has gravity to it â and knowing that youâll have to live with that choice is part of the decision-making process. Itâs called having a conscience, and itâs something machines lack.
Conscience â not calculation â is what kept us from launching the nukes during the 20th century. The ICBMs are ready, but despite 70 years of saber-rattling, the decision to use them is simply too big, ugly & final for us to push the button. So weâre teaching the machines how to do it instead.
To be fair, The Terminator and its sequels were as much a commentary on the time they were produced as they were a warning to the future âbut at the root of all these films remains a constant reminder:beware the consequences of giving machines the power to decide life & death.
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Temperature is rising at a rapid pace in 2022 . It's a matter of great worry.
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Record for change in world's temperature till today
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Temperature increase due to global warming
Earthâs temperature has risen by 0.14° Fahrenheit (0.08° Celsius) per decade since 1880, but the rate of warming since 1981 is more than twice that: 0.32° F (0.18° C) per decade.
2021 was the sixth-warmest year on record based on NOAAâs temperature data.
Averaged across land and ocean, the 2021 surface temperature was 1.51 °F (0.84 °Celsius) warmer than the twentieth-century average of 57.0 °F (13.9 °C) and 1.87 ËF (1.04 ËC) warmer than the pre-industrial period (1880-1900).Â
The nine years from 2013 through 2021 rank among the 10 warmest
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