Googlers using AI to kill people again?
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So, two possibilities. Eric is either just a greedy, lying profiteer (likely this one) or is beyond retarded.
Anyone who has spent any amount of time studying military history (and you certainly don't need the year+ he said he spent in the interview) knows that statement is beyond BS. People have been saying for centuries "well, this weapon will end war because it is so terrible!" WW1 was literally called "the war to end all wars" at the time due to how horrible it was.
If anything, I'd say you are just going to increase war (if your stuff works as advertised). To quote Robert E Lee at the end of the Battle of Fredericksburg
Congrats! You're just moving the politicians and generals yet further from the terror of it. I mean, look at what's been happening the last decade with drone strikes around the world. "Oh, I can just press this button, and there's a good chance someone halfway around the world I don't like blows up? Sounds fun!"
Honestly, I really, really hope that your stuff doesn't work as advertised, because (even ignoring the possibility of things Skynetting) large scale deployment of effective AI weaponry is going to be the stuff of absolute nightmares for everyone except politicians. And hopefully someone develops an effective EMP cannon soon, with the rate things are going.
If you no longer have land war, you are left with biological wars. He wants asymmetric control. Not only does he want to put politicians further from the battlefield, he wants to place himself in a position of greater control. Can't really say if it's simply for profits, or to fulfill his own delusions of godhood.
no new weapon will end wars. it'll just end ever winning or losing them. how do you exhaust the fighting spirit of a people so they'll never fight you? put them in a forever war against themselves.
I wonder how long until this AI is released and used by Religious fanatics/Middle East etc