We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago. This does include robotic weapons systems. The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control. At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.
But we are not the far from being able to create ...
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NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) released Special Publication 800-53 version 4 recently, and it covers the shortcomings in privacy and security in the national power grid, water control systems, dams, oil and gas utilities and similar computer controlled systems. There are no coherent or enforceable standards for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems ...
Remember Wednesday’s post, Will Artificial Intelligence Beat Real Intelligence? Here is the answer to that rhetorical question. For the full story, go to NPR.
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We can’t talk about robots without thinking about robots running amok as in the Terminator movies. But it turns out that most of the robots that are available today can be easily hacked by humans.
Robots are showing up in industrial settings, in hospitals, on our roads as autonomous vehicles, in secure facilities as guards, and in our homes, as carpet cleaners, children’s companions. Soon they will be everywhere, assisting, working, ...
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Its been a while since we have written about AI and robotics, but an article in Tech Republic got me inspired to discuss some of the more disturbing uses of autonomous machines, from least to most scary
The Singularity. Artificial Intelligence. Self-aware, self-actuating, and self-learning robots. What will our future be like when the machines become self-aware? Will it be the like the T-1000 from Terminator? Or more like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit? Or Andrew from Bicentennial Man? Here is a run-down of four different versions of our electronic and digital future.
A recent book by Martin Ford, Rise of Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, examines a world in the all ...
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Quick answer: Yes it can! A recent article in Bloomberg goes deeply into this subject, and reveals the experiences of a white hat hacker named Billy Rios. Billy and many others in the profession had been hired by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota in 2013 to try to hack all the medical devices in the hospital that were connected to the network. ...
What is going on? Here is another story of human on android violence. I have to admit, I find this stuff disturbing. I am sure most people just see an object, a thing, and that this sort of violence is no different from throwing your golf club into the lake during a particularly frustrating round of golf. But for me, ...
My son introduced me to this great political metal rap group more than a decade ago, and this article has nothing to do with them. I am just ripping off their name for this article about a couple of man on machine acts of violence that hit the news recently. Hope this isn’t a trend. When the machines become self-aware and find out about this, they will be pissed.
