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| US spooks build robo-bomber to kill pakis based on PRISM metadata, name it SKYNE by Welcome to Omsk 02/16/2016, 11:10am PST | ||||
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| I was thinking of also putting this in Balance of Power because it's an outcome of current US foreign policy but fuck it. Here:
"Ridiculously optimistic" machine learning algorithm is "completely bullshit," says expert. Welcome to the era of immoral technocracy, cyberpunk fans! Someone call William Gibson, he should be writing a whole new trilogy about this. Hell, someone call whoever owns Shadowrun and tell them there's a robo-bomber squadron controlled by a computer named after a James Cameron movie villain semi-randomly selecting pakistanis to kill based on their cellphone metadata. I can't even keep a straight face writing this. The decision tree for this was trained on a dataset of 7 positives and 100,000 randomly selected negatives. Some guys I know work in machine learning. Their comments were that they couldn't conceive of a way to get such a system to produce good results. The NSA gives everyone in a target demographic a terror level based on what you say in a phone call or the phone record or some bullshit and are training a drone bomber strike squadron to murder brown people in a desert based on some bullshit calculation with seven identifiers of you being likely to go suicide bomber and a hundred thousand identifiers of you being likely to be a regular person who wouldn't hurt a fly. Hope I don't get seven spam emails on my phone from ISIS this month. I feel like I'm in the presence of a huge, lumbering bulk of constructed structure trying to keep from falling somehow, or partially obscured? Hmm. Where have I seen this before? HMM. 
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US spooks build robo-bomber to kill pakis based on PRISM metadata, name it SKYNE by 02/16/2016, 11:10am PST  Fucked up the link, here's the right one by 02/16/2016, 11:12am PST Now THIS is cloud computing! by 02/16/2016, 12:42pm PST Next up is malware targeting the Killbots by 02/16/2016, 8:06pm PST This is almost certainly just used as input for human analysts. by 02/17/2016, 12:17am PST That was never the point, the point was how bizarre this all was culturally. by 02/17/2016, 8:35am PST I guess Colossus was taken. by 02/17/2016, 8:55am PST Is it possible it was called that to highilight how awful it is? by 02/17/2016, 9:26am PST |
