Why do you think the Bigs are doing what they are doing. Its cyberpunk dystopia for everyone! YAY!
The cyber-wars have been going on for quite a while - with "conventional military theater" happening 'top-side'... Duqu, Stuxnet, etc..
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Now we are managing the mind-set of the people (russian collusion, political circus via nascient (in the long term) technical services - Twitter, FB, Et Al.)
Look at Reddit - Winning Hearts and Minds has never been more controllable.
AI is the platform on which the efficacy, expediency and expanse of the future will be manipulated.
I dont see anyone building an AI to "make the world a better place" just yet....
/summons blood-boy
I'd bet a rent check on China having strong AI before Russia any day.
AI won't fly. But we will build tools that will fool people into thinking it exists. The problem that exists is that the correlations being made are as shaky as the lack of foundations in the veracity of the data being mined.
Dystopian future is already here and has been for decades. We are only just seeing it now. Recklessness and a lack of understanding the past will ensure that the majority of people will simply fall into place. Fear is the marketing game now, by corporations and governments and others.
Ruling the world is a catch-cry for those who, in the main, only care for themselves and their own.
