"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."
Is he still arguing that he deserves the Peace Prize?
Two Friday the 13th in a row? That tracks...
Bloomberg is reporting that Trump is claiming that Iran itself bombed the girls' school in a false flag operation. In comparison, Alex Jones is an arhat.
Even if the killer robots don't incinerate the world, what world will it be where even more power and resources are concentrated in the hands of the Thiels, Musks, Trumps? We will all be living under tarps on sidewalks before this is over.
To be clear, I, for one, welcome our new algorithmic overlords.
Meanwhile, we have in USA an administration that seems to have difficulty distinguishing between enemies and citizenry - they employ the same language to refer to actual terrorist organizations and anybody who doesn't agree with every detail of their agenda. Some of these weapons are pointing at us, and with algorithms on the triggers.
When Canadian AI pioneer Geoff Hinton stepped back from his role at Google, he said that it was to be free to speak openly about the risks of deploying the technology inappropriately, pointing to autonomous weapons systems as the most fraught example. It's happening before our eyes, being directed by the same geniuses that 18 months ago were talking heads on cable news and who have done nothing since to convince us that we under-judged them.
Whenever we read a story about somebody being arrested and charged with a crime with no more evidence than a hit on a facial recognition algorithm - seems like there are more of these every day - we wonder how law enforcement could be so... sloppy. But it's a symptom of a well-known - "automation bias" - tendency of people to give more credence to information that is excreted by an algorithm than from a human source. Further, it adds distance from decisions.
