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December 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Are We Ready for Conscious Robots?

So I was sitting in the library the other day and I was looking at a rather interesting but heavy coffee table book. The thought occurred to me.

“If I had a personal robot, it could hold this book for me to read, and turn the pages!”

Now if I take that idea a step or 3 forward, what if I gave that robot an AI brain that was capable of conscious self realisation?

I’d be sitting in the Library with a mechanical and conscious and highly intelligent, being… treating it in a way that you would not treat a human being.

Would this be a double standard? I wouldn’t want to treat another human like this, but something that was part machine?

One thought that came to mind was – this is probably the behavior of a slave owner!

I keep going back to the movie Prometheus, where David the IA robot (who is in the end a bad robot) has the following conversation with Charlie Holloway just as they are suiting up to explore the mysterious planet they have just landed on – it’s about 24 Min in from the start. The conversation goes like this.

Charlie Holloway
David Why are you wearing a suit man?

David
I beg your pardon?

Charlie Holloway
You don’t breathe remember … so why wear a suit?

David
I was designed like this, because you people are more comfortable, interacting with your own kind. If I didn’t wear the suit it would defeat the purpose.

Charlie Holloway
Making you guys pretty close ha?

David
Not to close I hope.

Snicker from Charlie!

All of this brings up the issue not only of decent behavior of a human and robot (not to mention a robot and a human) but also, would a protocol be part of social evolution?

I remember a line from a documentary about the Amish people and the conversation was with a young woman who was of marriageable age. When asked how she would find a good partner she said.

Always look at how a man treats his horse!

Good advice indeed!

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October 5, 2024October 5, 2024

AI Quantum and BGP

So there is going to be a day – (it may have already arrived) when AI is given a quantum computer to play with. Lets call this “day one”…. Once that happens it’s probable that all standard security on existing networks will be compromised.

There is also the matter of a network protocol called BGP (Border Gateway Protocol). The problem with that protocol is that unless your monitoring it continually and applying a degree of secure network management, huge amounts of data can be siphoned off on it’s way to it’s legitimate destination.

There are a number of examples and instances where large amounts of data have been hijacked. Now currently that data may not be able to be deciphered. But if you record and store it then throw a Quantum AI at the task, all of that historic data may be accessible.

So think about the implications of this, all banking transactions become vulnerable, all military and government communications. We are talking a very deep rabbit hole.

But let’s also open this up for further speculation – during world war two after the Allies had cracked the German Enigma machine, the fact that they had access to all communications was kept top secret.

While the Germans never found out the Allies could solve their codes, they suspected it as their ability to sink Allied shipping slipped dramatically in 1942.

So if and when this “day one” happens we probably won’t know about it.

For me the recent Crowdstrike adventure was a wake up call on a personal level. It made me aware that cash (even just an emergency fifty or a hundred bucks) is probably a good idea. I’m not heading for the woods quite yet. But a digitally insecure world? It is something to contemplate!

September 18, 2024