"AI" + 3D Printing + UAVs

[Pilgrim Pilot]

How long do you think it will be before a computer program decides to build its own UAVs, using 3D printing and/or other techniques?

 

[old man mavic]

its probably a reality now somewhere in some campus lab

 

[Pilgrim Pilot]

I just searched online for "robots building robots" and found this article from last year:

Robots will build robots in $150 million Chinese factory

Swiss robotics company ABB has revealed that it's spending $150 million to build an advanced robotics factory in Shanghai -- one that will use robots to build robots. The company will rely on its YuMi single-arm robots, which it once used to conduct an orchestra, for small parts assembly. It...

www.engadget.com

 

[Pilgrim Pilot]

whether it builds its own uav's or not, if a computer program were to go rogue, it could update all the DJI drones at once and command them however.

may I propose a little exercise in imagination?

fast forward just a little further .. when semi- or fully-autonomous humanoids or other forms of robots are roaming sidewalks and roads and dirt paths in most cities and municipalities around the world..

(warning: nightmare scenario ahead)

when they all at once do the bidding of some unknown software signal in some unknown, encrypted, unmitigatable software program acting out non-human code, buggy or not.

if the following two links were algebra, and you added one to the other, it's just one equation to show how fast things could go wrong if all these robots suddenly, for no conceivable reason, went bonkers .. what kind of equations do you see being played out in the algorithmic dreams and whims of not one but myriad rogue ais and flying/rolling/walking/hopping/magnetizing robots?

Blacklisted: When Google Classified the Entire Web as Malware

The 10th anniversary of the Google search incident that incorrectly classified the entire World Wide Web as malware is another opportunity…

medium.com

Facebook AI Creates Its Own Language In Creepy Preview Of Our Potential Future

In a glimpse at what the beginning of the technological singularity might look like, researchers at Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence platform after the bots went off script and developed a unique language that humans could not understand.

www.forbes.com

 

[Pilgrim Pilot]

...a problem with technology, which is a fancy word for tools, is not always with the people who make it and use it first-hand, but the ones who steal it, warp it, and reproduce it in other ways outside of the parameters made inherent in the do-gooder's version of the tech. the problem is with the human intent, but with software, the problems become exponentiated / abstracted into the foreseen and unforeseen known and unknown with a different intensity and scale than any other sort of problem we have found ourselves to toil with in human existence.

these are topics that are currently being discussed by rich people around board room tables, and when they are seen talking about the future, they seem to be shades pale, with a look of death in their eyes, because they know what's coming, and they don't know how to stop it.

I think more people should be having these discussions.