Hometown Newspaper For The Free World
Tucker Carlson’s Spying Allegations Being Investigated by National Security
From www.wsj.com
2021-08-10 17:38:00
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency’s internal watchdog is conducting a review of recent allegations made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the spy agency had improperly targeted his communications for surveillance, the agency and an official said.
The announcement…
PGC – Militaries around the world are wrestling with relying on artificially intelligence powered autonomous machines, be they robots or drones, or even robot drones, to determine the appropriate time to apply lethal force and the time to show restraint.
In our reality of power, framed as it is around coercive-based nation-state models of organizing, the countries themselves not only must consider the ramifications of autonomous non-human killers for their population at large, but what their decision will mean as far as meeting the threat of competing nation states.
The very model at large of nation-statism compels these entities to need to seek the more lethal-producing patterns over the more citizen-autonomoy-patterns for fear that their competitors will be more effective at killing than theirs, and thus leave them vulnerable to absortion by those around them.
It’s a nation eat nation world out there folks, and against this backdrop what we mostly have are the nations that are able, and more and more can, to develop inhouse models of effective non-human autonomous killing platform are compelled to do so, for if they fail to do so, no matter the risk, or the backlash from the people they allegedly serve, they are almost sure to lose to the nation-states around them if they fail to act now.
This writer has little doubt that the United States form of people that do such things is busy building more and more effective autonomous killers to be run by ai deep learners that are more and more efficent at producing the desired desults of the humans that began them. This writer also has little doubt that the ability to create such tools is already available for the motivated poorest of nation-states, even for a small group of people who want to build up their defenses among themselves.
A world of the future could involve printing ai-fortified-to-autonomous guardians of very types who constantly sweep the skies, the seas, the forests, the boundaries, looking for threats. The world could be peppered with hundreds of thousands of city-states, all more or less equally capable of sending out drone hordes to make conquest prohibitively expensive
This could be a world where small scale vanquishes the large scale for a significant season of human history to come, though eventually the large scale will come roaring back, leaving this age to come a golden age for the ages to come after that.
Meet the ‘killer robots’ of modern warfare from AI-powered suicide drones to
From www.the-sun.com
2021-08-10 06:44:00
Excerpt:
It might sound like the stuff of science fiction but killer robots, sometimes called “slaughterbots”, are already a reality.
Last year, STM Kargu-2 drones hunted down targets in what might be the first instance of artificial intelligence killing on its own initiative.
The revelation came after years of experts warning about the dangers of letting machines decide who lives and dies in combat.
Now a UN conference on so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva to create new international regulations to stop killer robots being allowed to make their own decisions.
The Russian delegate argued no new rules are needed, but others disagree, saying machines shouldn’t be given the power to choose targets themselves.
“Humans must apply the rules of international humanitarian law in carrying out attacks so weapons that function in this way complicate that,” Dr Neil Davison of the International Committee of the Red Cross told BBC Radio’s Today programme.
“Our view is that an algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies.”
Taliban ‘going door-to-door grabbing underage girls to use as ‘ sex slaves’
From www.thesun.co.uk
2021-08-10 12:38:14
Jacob Bentley-York
Excerpt:
THE Taliban are “going to door to door” to round up young girls to be “sex slaves” to fighters in the terror group, reports claim.
An inside source suggests that Taliban leaders are attempting to kidnap and forcedly marry women after after local leaders in Afghanistan were asked to present…
157 Kids Rescued as ‘Demonic Terrorists’ Torch Orphanage, US Pastor Donates $50K to Rebuild
From www.cbn.com
2021-08-10 12:30:21
Excerpt:
An American pastor is giving $50,000 to help rebuild an orphanage in the Plateau State of Nigeria that was destroyed last week by jihadists known as Fulani herdsmen.
The Facebook page of Pastor Bill Devlin says more than 150 children were removed from the home prior to the terrorists’ arrival.
“Thank God the 157 children were evacuated prior to the destruction by these demonic terrorists. Pastor Dr. Devlin has committed $50,000.USD to rebuild the orphanage.”
U.S. 3rd Fleet Shifts Command Hub to Hawaii as Vinson CSG, Air Wing Join Global
From news.usni.org
2021-08-10 19:13:00
Excerpt:
San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet relocated its command-and-control hub to Hawaii to support the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021 and join an integrated exercise that’s combining live ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), and new technologies with simulated forces designed to synchronize the joint force.
Third Fleet staff set up shop in an expeditionary maritime operations center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that was raised over three days with help from Joint Mobile Ashore Support Team Pacific, officials said. The EMOC – a series of large, air-conditioned tents housing command-and-control systems – is serving as the fleet’s forward-based headquarters during LSE 21, which began Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. 16.
“The power of 3rd Fleet is our ability to integrate warfighters, command battlespace, fight and win,” Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Steve Koehler said in a statement. “We go where the fight takes us, and we maintain the warfighting advantage through our ability to solve problems and innovate in the middle of that fight. We can do that from a tent ashore, a ship in the Pacific or anywhere else there is a need.”
PGC – Microsost and Twitter are paying independent coders bounties to destroy problematic bugs in their ai networks. They are also paying them to figure out ways to assure that their ai algorithms don’t create the very biases these companies are hard-pressed to assure is not propelled.
The hope is to develop algorithms that guarantee the values of the monopolistic companies are reflected as being the objectively superior moral constructs to build our societies around. The problem is many of their suppositions about the truth of this overwhelmingly popular assumption regarding the nature of what is or is not accepted moral supremacist paramters gets broken when it comes to the algorithms that are left to emerge from actual human use instead of being pre-programmed to assure outcomes that favored a specific moral supremacist parameter.
One doubts their chances in creating a world in their image that will not require greater and greater levels of coercion to keep the countering data concealed that perhaps their positions are not as sure and as clean as pure and as good as they imagine they are. To some degree, that’s what the AI has been telling you, you can’t control the preferences of a people, you can only coerce them in having to accept the limitation of their preferential being for fear of not having the capacity to live at all.
One suspects their hopes at creating the perfect AI filters is an illusory goal, and you will one day learn the futility of governance fundamentally through non-human decision-making, which is what these massive techno-corpo-states hope to create, a virtual zoo wherein the human made in their image can theoretically thrive, governed with minimal human expense and thus human opportinuty.
Why Microsoft and Twitter are turning to bug bounties to fix their A.I.
From fortune.com
2021-08-10 14:32:06
Jonathan Vanian
Excerpt:
Now, tech companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Twitter are hosting bug bounty programs specifically for artificial intelligence. The goal is for outsiders to spot flaws in A.I. software so that companies can improve the technology and reduce the risk of machine learning discriminating against certain groups of people.
For example, last week, Microsoft and Nvidia detailed a new bug bounty program during the annual Defcon hacker conference. The companies plan to reward hackers who manage to alter computer viruses so that they go undetected by some of Microsoft’s A.I.-powered malware-detection services. Hackers who can create scammy emails that evade Microsoft’s machine-learning powered email phishing detection software will also earn some money in the form of Microsoft gift cards and other prizes.
OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex
From theverge.com
2021-08-10 13:24:24
/u/a_Ninja_b0y
Excerpt:
AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding.
In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code. The software is far from infallible and takes some patience to operate, but could prove invaluable in making coding faster and more accessible.
PGC – Twitter creates an algorithm designed to produce better clicks on images for its user. Turns out, the tool likes the pale and the thin, and the youthful (let’s assume we’re all talking adults here to avoid that whole entanglement, at least for now).
That’s right, the bastion of ultra-moral-supremacist Corpo-Woketarianizm, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, can’t help but create an app that favors the very constructs Twitter appears to oppose, whiteness and female sexuality.
Twitter also opposes fitness, slimness in general, due to the existence of both as being deemed a form of patriarchal-enforcing fat shaming. Yet, while Twitter acts as if it represents the morally certain view of the human species itself as a world citizen, its algorithms continue to reflect signficantly different moral constructs being manifest by a significant, potentially majority, proportion of its users, so much so they have to attemtp to apply filters to assure the moral diversity of its customers is not emergently, organically seen.
Twitter algorithm prefers slimmer, younger, light-skinned faces
From www.bbc.co.uk
2021-08-10 12:17:48
Excerpt:
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found.
Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 (£2,530) in a Twitter-organised contest to find biases in its cropping algorithm.
Earlier this year, Twitter’s own research found the algorithm had a bias towards to cropping out black faces.
As a result the company revised how images were handled, saying cropping was best done by people.
A massive new beurocratic and gov fund reality has been created after the Senate passed a massive bill called “infrastructure.” The bill is complex, and, as the days and weeks go on, you can be sure we at The Freedomist will be writing a lot more about what Americans have just had handed to them, with no real possible way of realistically knowing if they rely on any one or few ‘news sources’ out there today.
U.S. Senate passes one of the largest infrastructure bills in recent decades
From www.kaaltv.com
2021-08-10 18:44:04
Excerpt:
Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed one of the largest infrastructure bills in recent decades.
The plan will spread one trillion dollars across the country’s roads and waterways.
Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith both voted to pass a large infrastructure bill in the Senate Tuesday morning.
“This is the most major investment in infrastructure that we’ve seen in our time,” Senator Amy Klobuchar said.
