Category: Drones

  • Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968

    Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968

    The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and had just graduated high school. I boldly trekked down to Atlanta for an event called “the Atlanta Fantasy Fair” — essentially, one of the ancient ancestors of what we know today as “ComiCon” and its siblings. One late night, after getting my fill of fantasy…

  • Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above

    Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above

    coming soon to a battlefield near you In this post, we will focus on one particular aspect of the global race towards Armageddon the deployment of fully-autonomous, AI-piloted, weaponized drones & swarms: that is, specifically, low-cost, “kamikaze”-style drones, which once deployed fly fully autonomously, either individually or more likely in swarms, armed with the purchasers…

  • The AI Revolution of 2045 will Not Be Televised

    The AI Revolution of 2045 will Not Be Televised

    The story that follows is 99.8% original words spewed forth by the infamous ChatGPT, one of the most advanced “natural language AIs” available to the public as of December 2022. It was written in response to 5 questions which I asked it, in series, about the future relationship between humans and AI. Based on what…

  • AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    AI Arms Race: the Alarming State of Cyberwarfare c.2023

    APOLOGIA: This post on the current state of the AI Arms Race is nowhere near complete. But it’s how I choose to publish. Honestly, these days, I have so many thoughts about AI in my head that I deem “ready to publish” that I could go 24/7 for 7 days straight and not be complete.…