Is Human Virtualization Transforming Alien Warfare?

[sbrothy]

Searching arXiv using words like "AI", "ML" and "war", and doing a little creative paraphrasing (read: technobabbling) is a veritable goldmine for using the old trick of including "classified" papers in your text:

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[CLASSIFIED. Project ERAD. Disseminate by Need Only.]

WARNING:

READ NO FURTHER:

If your clearence is below ERAD.
If the seal was broken when you were handed this physical document.
If pages are missing. Count them to be sure. There should be 24.

FAILURE TO ADHERE IS A FELONY WHICH:

In peacetime carries mandatory lifetime incarceration.
If war is currently being prosecuted carries mandatory capital punishment.


[Military Research, AI, Machine Learning, Human Virtualization and Augmentation]


SYNOPSIS:

This paper explores the changes that human virtualization and augmentation is having on the nature of alien warfare. The goal is a complementary approach where virtualised augmented human experts [VAHE] and combat machines are blended. Combined with Machine Learning [ML] and basing our approach on the principles of compartmentalization combined with historical and modern examples, we show how AI-controlled autonomous weapons systems can be effectively managed by teams of semi-autonomous AIs working in conjunction with VAHEs. In this way we provide for a flexible and dynamic approach to managing combat systems. We conclude by presenting a path to achieving an integrated vision of machine-speed combat where the VAHE-supervized battlefield is operated in conjunction with AIs watching for patterns of behavior to assess the performance of enemy combat machinery. This approach enables the development of combat systems that are likely to be more efficient, operate at machine speed, and capable of responding to a broader range of dynamic battlefield conditions than any purely autonomous AI system.

Authors: [REDACTED]


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Sorry for my English, it's my second language, but I'm sure you get the drift. This technique has been used by countless authors to make things look more serious. And yes, I'm a little bored.

Just of the top of my head:

Michael Crichton in Andromeda Strain
Ian M. Banks? Or am I thinking of Charles Stross? Stross certainly milked it for all it it was worth.

 

[Vanadium 50]

If you like the arXiv, try the SnarXiv.

 

[sbrothy]

Ahaha, funny! I seem to remember there's a site which frankly doesn't care about content, like, at all. Where crackpots can upload virtually anything. It's name escapes me right now, but that's probably a good thing.

 

[Vanadium 50]

seem to remember there's a site which frankly doesn't care about content, like, at all. Where crackpots can upload virtually anything. It's name escapes me right now,

YouTube.

 

[Rive]

I seem to remember there's a site

...regarding that, sometimes I feel like as the old joke goes - the broadcast from the radio: there is a madman driving in the wrong direction on the highway!
....you get the rest, right?

 

[DrClaude]

Ahaha, funny! I seem to remember there's a site which frankly doesn't care about content, like, at all. Where crackpots can upload virtually anything. It's name escapes me right now, but that's probably a good thing.

viXra

 

[sbrothy]

viXra

Yeah. That's the one. I almost suspected just mentioning it would earn you a warning. :)

 

[DrClaude]

Yeah. That's the one. I almost suspected just mentioning it would earn you a warning. :)

Just don't link to it

 

[Hornbein]

It's Iain banks.

 

[sbrothy]

It's Iain banks.

I'ts both then. Because Charles Stross has his Laundry-novels littered with fictious "classified" documents.

 

[sbrothy]

...regarding that, sometimes I feel like as the old joke goes - the broadcast from the radio: there is a madman driving in the wrong direction on the highway!
....you get the rest, right?

You mean there is literally only one site on the whole internet that lets you post all kinds of crud without moderation? That's certainly true *cough*.

Or maybe I misunderstood you anyway.

 

[Rive]

You mean there is literally only one site on the whole internet that lets you post all kinds of crud without moderation?

No. It feels like there is only one which forbids...

The end of that joke is, that after the warning from the radio a listener angrily yells: one driver going the wrong way? All of them!

Sometimes it feels like sticking to science is against the trend of times

 

[sbrothy]

No. It feels like there is only one which forbids...

The end of that joke is, that after the warning from the radio a listener angrily yells: one driver going the wrong way? All of them!

Sometimes it feels like sticking to science is against the trend of times

Ah yeah. I remember the joke now. It belongs in that other thread though. The lame joke one. But then again most of I post probably belong there. :P