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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines

According to Google and NASA, this computer will be tasked with research in the realm of "machine learning" -- i.e. machines learning how to think for themselves. It's not just speech recognition, vision recognition and teaching robotic Humvees with .50-caliber machine guns how to stalk and shoot "enemy combatants" on the streets of America, either: it's teaching machines how to learn and think for themselves.

Using your human brain, think for a moment about where such technology is most likely to be applied by a government that respects no human rights, no law and no limits on its power.

If you guessed "analyzing NSA surveillance data," give yourself ten bonus points.
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While cool, it isn't balancing itself.
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My understanding was the straps from the top were safety measure. They didn't want a few thousand dollars to smash itself. Figuring out balance shouldn't be difficult. Now to have it biodigest organic material into electricity.
 
faethor said:
My understanding was the straps from the top were safety measure. They didn't want a few thousand dollars to smash itself. Figuring out balance shouldn't be difficult. Now to have it biodigest organic material into electricity.
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Not even talking about the straps up top, but the pole in the back.
 
Yeah missiles require lots of maintenance and loading. I'm sure a couple of bayonets in the front hitting you at 28MPH will be sufficient. A bit of backing up and they're reusable.
 
from the Google blog:

You may be aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies have joined a secret U.S. government program called PRISM to give the National Security Agency direct access to our servers. As Google’s CEO and Chief Legal Officer, we wanted you to have the facts.

First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.
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What?????
 
Direct access is unnecessary. You could assign the traffic to two fiber ports and give one to the gov to record all the data. Such as you would for a traffic monitoring tool. Or you could make backup copies of the data on whatever media and ship that over to the gov.

And there may be some subtle word smiting in there 'not joined any program' may be true. The Gov could request the stuff and Google could give it to them. 9/11 legislation enables such a request to be demanded to be undisclosible under penalty of law. There'd be no need to 'join a program' for that to happen.
 
I was shocked they had "never" heard of PRISM.
what the heck does that mean?
 
I dealt with a couple of data requests to the ISP I worked at post 9/11. The docs we were provided had no space for any name of the program. If the PRISM program was secret it wouldn't surprise me if the US Gov never disclosed the program name to the ISP (or Google in this case). And instead did a request for data with XXX criteria for 'an ongoing national security investigation'.
 
ah, ok, I guess so. Thanks....I suppose I've watched too many Bond films where we all know their secret secret names :lol:
 
Yes, I read about Google's response to PRISM but didn't post here because my new reputation as an authoritarian probably wouldn't lend any credibility to it. Also, Google is fighting to disclose more information in it's transparency reports but is being blocked by the government. I fully back Google on that, I think transparency is key. Yes, I think the NSA can spy on us and still be open about it.
 
cecilia said:
ah, ok, I guess so. Thanks....I suppose I've watched too many Bond films where we all know their secret secret names :lol:
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UK tapped over 200 Fiber Optic Cables from the US then shared that data with the US government. Remember what I said one need not 'direct connect' to the server? You can just tap the connection and get all the data.

Something we know about Google is their Cloud design is fairly agnostic to boarders. I believe it was the City of Los Angeles (I could be wrong on that) found in their testing that their Cloud data ended up copied on Google Servers in China. Related article US Gov data found in China by Chinese hackers . So, if Google's practice is shipping data outside the USA then it'd be likely privy to the US Gov as a potential non-US Citizen communication. If the UK is tapping these lines, it very well may mean that Google isn't aware of this. (Note: Not giving Google a mulligan but trying to explain how it really could be possible the US gov could have Google data and Google might really not know it. )
 
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