D. den Otter writes:
> Here immediately that well-known image from Terminator 2 comes to mind; a
> cyborg skeleton's foot violently crushing a human skull. Way cool! Once
> "real" AI is developed, it's only a matter of time before they build
> something like SkyNet; a fully automated and autonomous defense system with
> nuclear (among other things) capability.
I dunno, in advanced weaponry the human has to be removed from the
control loop, and be it simply because of the latency. Autonomous
systems capable of rapid reaction to complex stimuli are very possible
with the right neuronal hardware, and hence will dominate the future
largely automated battlefield. Just give it some time, and a new
political polarization (Europa/Northern America/Asia would be good
candidates) as an incentive to start up the arms race again, and we're
almost there.
All the (threatened) AI has to do is to take over the existing
military and civil systems, which should be a cakewalk, given how
holey IT securety today is and in near/mid-term future will be. Of
course what makes the Terminator series so unrealistic is the temporal
scope of the conflict, and that there are still human survivors at
relatively late stage of the game. Considering existing overkill
capacities, in reality it would be over very quickly, even not
considering autoamplifying/self accelerating capacities of the AI in a
positive autofeedback loop.
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