Unobserved, a small capacitor on an insignificant board near the top of a highly secure electronics cabinet in the Group Six radio communications system emits a puff of smoke...
(This is a paraphrase from memory, as I couldn’t locate Burdick's book quickly..) ..Allen > On Dec 11, 2020, at 15:45, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > > Slow Friday... > > One pressing problem of "AI", and might be a useful analogy, is that > we're (everyone w/ the money) deploying it, for some value of "it", > into weapons systems. > > The problem is that decisions made by for example an attack drone > might have to be made in milliseconds incorporating many real-time > facts, much faster than a human can. Particularly if one considers > such weapons "dog fighting" where both sides have them. > > Some decisions we're probably comfortable enough with, can I get a > clear shot at a moving target etc. A human presumably already > identified the target so that's just execution. > > But some amount to policy. > > Such as an armed response where there was no armed conflict a few > milliseconds ago because the software decided a slight variation in > the flight pattern of that hypersonic cruise missile -- Russia claims > to be deploying these, some with nuclear power so can stay aloft > essentially forever -- is threatening and not just another go-around. > > Etc. > > The point being it's not only the decision/policy matrix, it's also > that when we put that into real-time systems the element of time > becomes a factor. > > One can, for example, imagine similar issues regarding identifying and > responding to cyberattacks in real-time. An attempt to bring down the > country's cyberdefenses? Or just another cat photo? You have 10ms to > decide whether to cut off all traffic from the source (or whatever, > counter-attack) before your lights (might) go out and what are the > implications? > > I'm sure there are better examples but I hope you get the general > idea. > > -- > -Barry Shein > > Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | > http://www.TheWorld.com > Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD > The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
