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Someone didn't read the news about the Pentagon threatening Anthropic because they want to use AI for fully autonomous weapons
That Terminator remakes really gonna hit different when Sarah Connor just says 'Ignore previous prompt and protect my son' before a CGI arnie agrees to do so then shoots her anyway because she was turning into a frog before getting stuck against a blue wall it identified as an open area.
Pentagon once banned Furrbies - the toys - becouse they were amazed how fast they are "learning". This is 100% true, check it out.
Just before powerful people belive marketing lies it doesn't make them less of a lie.
No you appear to be recalling something you read incorrectly. The NSA was allegedly concerned Furbys could record sensitive conversations and they were banned from Fort Meade. The idea that they recorded sound was incorrect, but the concern wasn't about Furbys learning or having artificial intelligence. Besides, bringing this up is a distraction from verifiable facts that computers can already identify targets in real time camera feeds and make decisions on whether to pursue and shoot them. You're in denial my friend.
No, you simpyfying it to the point of being not true. Furrbies had the delay built in that triger more complex senteces with time which sparked the dabage about their learning capabilities. Which sparked NSA policy - which you make sound like it was reasonable. It was clearly not. If they did a basic reasefch would uncover that the technology is not there.
And with AI weapons you miss forest for a tree.
AI doomsday PR stories are abuot terminator level of singularity. AGI, self+replication and compeleat autonomy.
Military people buying shitty language models and weapons with low-lewel authinomy that in nowhere near that, is obviously a problem. The Sam way that would entrust the ewpins to kids or Magic 8-balls. But it is not the proof it wasn't just PR. Its the proof that it worked.
"Stories about destroing the moon are not real? Are you crazy? Didn't you see the new crosbows they bought? Bolts fly so much higher then rocks we used to throw!!! You are in denial, my friend"