ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
IT WILL KILL US
Not Science Fiction
By
Søren Nielsen
2019
The subject of my paper, is something that is smarter than you are: Artificial intelligence.
In fact, a lot of people who work in artificial intelligence believe that artificial intelligence is a thousand times smarter than we are.
It will be moving at speeds that are a hundred thousand times as fast as we think, and it will be digesting information and data a million times more than we can.
What is artificial intelligence?
There`s a lot of confused ideas about this outside in the world, but the answer is very simple, it`s one sentence:
"Artificial Intelligence is software that writes itself."
It writes its own updates. It renews itself.
We normally tend to think of software as stuff that we created and that we wrote, and the machines do what we tee themto do, and we own it.
This is not any longer true.
It writes itself at speeds that we can hardly comprehend, and people who write it know, that you can`t take it apart again and figure out what it has done.
It writes independently, autonomously, it develops its own way of thinking, and there are dangers associated with that.
A lot of people ask, "When is it going to happen? When is artificial intelligence going to be smarter than us people?"
Some people say 50 years. Some say 30 years. Some say 5 years.
I say, it already has surpassed us in many areas of our society. Let`s take some examples from right here and now.
The examples that we`re going to talk about are not science fiction, they`re not visions or things that are going to happen at some point. They`re things that exist today, for example in the stock market whether Frankfurt or Tokyo or New York or London.
The people you see down there working on your TV show when you`r watching, they`re more or less extras in a movie.
They aren`t doing the big moving.
The big moving is being done by high-frequency computers. They move so fast, they make in milliseconds, billion-dollar business. Computers have far succeeded what we can do.
In fact, I did a film once about a company that moved blocks closer to the Frankfurt stock market, because at the speed of light on glass cable, they saved so moch time, getting closer to the computers at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
That will give you an idea of how fast they think and how helpless we as human beings, are. You may remember the old pictures of the stock brokers with five telephones in each hand, running back and forth, writing things, that was way before yesterday!
Computers have taken over this very very important part of our society, a heart of our financial community.
And no one understands exactly how these algorithms function. They used to understand them, but they`ve been improved by artificial intelligence.
I don`t know how many people that flew today, but if you were sitting in an airplane, you probably had 30 different tariffs and prices in your cabin, because the pricing is all done - the same is true of hotels - by machines that are collecting global information, making secisions within split seconds what the price of that airplane seat or that hotel room is going to be.
And where it`s most critical of all - we`re talking about life and death - in medicine.
Computers are better than we are, as human beings, in several areas already today. We`re talking about here and now, this is not science fiction.
I`m speaking next week at the "Universitãtsklinikum" in Essen, and their radiologists, who are supposed to be some of the best radiologists in Germany, they say that a computer can recognize a tumor on an MRT or a CT, faster and better and more precisely than a human being can.
It`s picture analysis, and it`s done very well by computers, especially in medicine where it saves lives.
Now, the robots are getting better and better, they`re looking cute. They have these big baby eyes, a sweet way of looking at you. They can examine tour facial expression and adjust their`s.
But don`t be fooled by robots even when they get warm skin, perfume, and they start smelling like us and getting really interesting. They are still machines.
They have no warm blood in them. There`s no sex in them.They have no mortality. They`re cold code lines, and they shouldn`t be misunderstood.
Now, I what you to understand, what the power of artificial intelligence is, and I have two examples:
1: Surveillance Cameras.
Everbody knows that we`re being watched by cameras everywhere, and most people think surveillance is, a camera there, and it`s me down here, and it`s watching me: One person, one camera. Well, that`s because we`re stupid.
That the way we comprehend the surveillance: One person, one camera. We can`t comprehend it when it goes beyond that.
This image was taken 17.500 feet above Quantico, Virginia, and cover 15 square miles.
This whole image is a very, very fine resolution. So if we what to know what`s going on in any spot along this image, let`s say near this buliding at this intersection, everthing that is a moving object is being automatically tracked.
The color boxes represent that the computer has recognized the moving objects. You can see individuals crossing the street. You can see individuals walking in the parking lots.
There`s actually enough resolution to be able to see the people waving their arms or walking around and what kind of clothes they wear.
They aren`t doing the big moving.
The big moving is being done by high-frequency computers. They move so fast, they make in milliseconds, billion-dollar business. Computers have far succeeded what we can do.
In fact, I did a film once about a company that moved blocks closer to the Frankfurt stock market, because at the speed of light on glass cable, they saved so moch time, getting closer to the computers at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
That will give you an idea of how fast they think and how helpless we as human beings, are. You may remember the old pictures of the stock brokers with five telephones in each hand, running back and forth, writing things, that was way before yesterday!
Computers have taken over this very very important part of our society, a heart of our financial community.
And no one understands exactly how these algorithms function. They used to understand them, but they`ve been improved by artificial intelligence.
I don`t know how many people that flew today, but if you were sitting in an airplane, you probably had 30 different tariffs and prices in your cabin, because the pricing is all done - the same is true of hotels - by machines that are collecting global information, making secisions within split seconds what the price of that airplane seat or that hotel room is going to be.
And where it`s most critical of all - we`re talking about life and death - in medicine.
Computers are better than we are, as human beings, in several areas already today. We`re talking about here and now, this is not science fiction.
I`m speaking next week at the "Universitãtsklinikum" in Essen, and their radiologists, who are supposed to be some of the best radiologists in Germany, they say that a computer can recognize a tumor on an MRT or a CT, faster and better and more precisely than a human being can.
It`s picture analysis, and it`s done very well by computers, especially in medicine where it saves lives.
Now, the robots are getting better and better, they`re looking cute. They have these big baby eyes, a sweet way of looking at you. They can examine tour facial expression and adjust their`s.
But don`t be fooled by robots even when they get warm skin, perfume, and they start smelling like us and getting really interesting. They are still machines.
They have no warm blood in them. There`s no sex in them.They have no mortality. They`re cold code lines, and they shouldn`t be misunderstood.
Now, I what you to understand, what the power of artificial intelligence is, and I have two examples:
1: Surveillance Cameras.
Everbody knows that we`re being watched by cameras everywhere, and most people think surveillance is, a camera there, and it`s me down here, and it`s watching me: One person, one camera. Well, that`s because we`re stupid.
That the way we comprehend the surveillance: One person, one camera. We can`t comprehend it when it goes beyond that.
This image was taken 17.500 feet above Quantico, Virginia, and cover 15 square miles.
This whole image is a very, very fine resolution. So if we what to know what`s going on in any spot along this image, let`s say near this buliding at this intersection, everthing that is a moving object is being automatically tracked.
The color boxes represent that the computer has recognized the moving objects. You can see individuals crossing the street. You can see individuals walking in the parking lots.
There`s actually enough resolution to be able to see the people waving their arms or walking around and what kind of clothes they wear.
Unlike the predator camera that limits field of view, "ARGUS-IS" melt together videos from each of its 368 chips to create a 1.8 billion pixel video stream.
This makes it possible to zoom in and still see tremendous detail. And it produces a million terabytes every day. That a lot of data.
I`m telling you this, because not that the sensors are moden and not that the photography is moden, behind that is a brain, or a cognitive intelligence, and that brain is in a position to analyze everybody down there.
At the same time, in real time they see where everyone is going. We can understand that when we reduce it to a single person, but we can`t understand it, when you`re talking about a hundred thousand people in a city, plus the vehicles which are all recognized.
Due to such systems, they have also redone facial recognition. You probably think facial recognition is from the front, but they`ve redone it to do it from the top, because that`s where the drones are.
They look at your ears, the way you walk, your head - that`s moden facial recognition.
So that`s one idea: as a human being, we think of one camera and one person.
This is a little of their things: It`s taking all the details, all the musing after, and then record it, so they can tell where that personwas tow weeks ago, two months ago, what stores he visited, what his whole behavioral patterns are. That`s all part of the analysis of "Argus".
This makes it possible to zoom in and still see tremendous detail. And it produces a million terabytes every day. That a lot of data.
I`m telling you this, because not that the sensors are moden and not that the photography is moden, behind that is a brain, or a cognitive intelligence, and that brain is in a position to analyze everybody down there.
At the same time, in real time they see where everyone is going. We can understand that when we reduce it to a single person, but we can`t understand it, when you`re talking about a hundred thousand people in a city, plus the vehicles which are all recognized.
Due to such systems, they have also redone facial recognition. You probably think facial recognition is from the front, but they`ve redone it to do it from the top, because that`s where the drones are.
They look at your ears, the way you walk, your head - that`s moden facial recognition.
So that`s one idea: as a human being, we think of one camera and one person.
This is a little of their things: It`s taking all the details, all the musing after, and then record it, so they can tell where that personwas tow weeks ago, two months ago, what stores he visited, what his whole behavioral patterns are. That`s all part of the analysis of "Argus".
These are called "Tennis Balls" in the military and intelligence circles. It`s a new secretive sensoric thing.
A cruise missile would fly into a valley in Afghanistan, and this is especially important because, the troops have left many of these areas and they would drop literallythousands of these "Sensor Packages" or "Tennis Balls", they`re all packed in foam rubber.
They record with "Cameras". They record with "Microphones". They record with "Seismic Measurements". They record with "Geiger Counters". They record with "Chemical Sensors"., they can look for chemical things.
That`s not the amazing part of it, and it`s not the amazing part that their signal goes to a transmitter and then up to the satellite: "Old Technology", nothing special.
The special part of it is, behind that system, there`s a fusion software, that can combine the audio and the visual and the seismic and the chemical, all of these signals, and make sense of them, and analyze on the ground what kind of troop movements there are, what the kinds of vehicles they`re using, what are they transporting and if there`s radioactivity in that.
It takes all these different pieces of information and turn it through fusion software into an understandable picture, which goes way beyond, way beyond our vision.
Artificial intelligence only works if you have huge data masses. Artificial intelligence only works if you have big data, but big data only works, if you have artificial intelligence to make sense of it, because human beings can no longer sort and sift and order the huge volumes of data that we have collected.
And thus it is not surprising that the company that has the most information in the world, it`s probably the most powerful company in the world, "Google", is very interested in artificial intelligence and has been travelling around the world as a shopping queen, buting all the companies that are dealing with robotics, and this is one of their robots called "Atlas".
A cruise missile would fly into a valley in Afghanistan, and this is especially important because, the troops have left many of these areas and they would drop literallythousands of these "Sensor Packages" or "Tennis Balls", they`re all packed in foam rubber.
They record with "Cameras". They record with "Microphones". They record with "Seismic Measurements". They record with "Geiger Counters". They record with "Chemical Sensors"., they can look for chemical things.
That`s not the amazing part of it, and it`s not the amazing part that their signal goes to a transmitter and then up to the satellite: "Old Technology", nothing special.
The special part of it is, behind that system, there`s a fusion software, that can combine the audio and the visual and the seismic and the chemical, all of these signals, and make sense of them, and analyze on the ground what kind of troop movements there are, what the kinds of vehicles they`re using, what are they transporting and if there`s radioactivity in that.
It takes all these different pieces of information and turn it through fusion software into an understandable picture, which goes way beyond, way beyond our vision.
Artificial intelligence only works if you have huge data masses. Artificial intelligence only works if you have big data, but big data only works, if you have artificial intelligence to make sense of it, because human beings can no longer sort and sift and order the huge volumes of data that we have collected.
And thus it is not surprising that the company that has the most information in the world, it`s probably the most powerful company in the world, "Google", is very interested in artificial intelligence and has been travelling around the world as a shopping queen, buting all the companies that are dealing with robotics, and this is one of their robots called "Atlas".
They`re buying our artificial intelligence, all the artificial intelligence companies from around the world.
Now, if you ask "Google", it`s a peacful robot, right?
He doesn`t have a gun, he dosen`t throw atomic bombs. He just walks around and stands there.
But you may have seen the superimposes of "DARPA", (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
That is the research arm of "The Pentagon". They have made a video about there robot, but when you look who made it.
Then, you see the video is made by "Lockheed Martin", whice is one of the most powerful and influential and richest weapons companies in the world.
So why is "The Pentagon" investing this money?
Why has "Lockheed Martin" taken over large aspects of the company?
This guy is called "Big Dog". He also belongs to "Google", also "DARPA" financed. Peaceful dog, right?
Unless he get caught on a maneuver with "The United States Marines", as part of a military unit.
So, these are not flower children. These are robots that have a function. And robots that have a function and an intelligence and perhaps an intelligence that goes beyond us, are dangerous things.
Now that`s a "Predator Drone", this was taken at a secret United States Air Force base in New Mexico.
"Predator drones", you`ve seen them, right? On TV, in the newspapers...
They`re old! They`re 20 years old technology. It looks very scary when "The Spiegel" and "The ARD" write about modern technology and the guy with a joystick that are killing people and "Taliban" in "Afghanistan" far away, but that`s what a modern drone looks like.
This is not a "Predator", it`s a "Pegasus" an "X-47B" owend by the Navy. It`s a jet powered machine, not like a propeller driven "Predator".
It goes 2.000 miles into enemy territory. It carries 2.000 kilos worth of explosives, and it`s run by artificial intelligence.
It starts alone, flies its mission alone, comes back alone, and here`s the clue, it lands all by itself on an aircraft carrier. Talk to any pilot you`ve ever met:
"What`s the most difficult landing area you can possibly imagine?"
He will say:
"It`s an aircraft carrier - shot runway, thing`s moving - very hard".
This thinking drone can do it, but here are the two keys to "Pegasus".
"Pegasus" is invisible. I`m not talking about stealth and being invisible to radar. I`m talking about "invisible to the human eye", and you won`t find this in any newspaper anywhere.
It`s invisible to the human eye because, the bottom has an LED layer on it, and the top has cameras, which have been removed here in the picture, which film the sky, they project on the bottom, a live picture of clouds up above the aircraft and you can hardly see it.
They`re responsible for a lot of these UFO sightings in Nevada, near the testing areas. Jet engine propulsion a reach of 2.000 miles, Start and Landing all by itself, stealth is optical stealth - you can`t see it - and the kill decision, which is required by United States law to be made by human beings, human beings must be in the loop before someone is killed by a drone, but is in the machine and it doesn`t need people.
It can decide by itself whether or not it kills somebody.
The experts say it`s going to make less misstakes and less collateral damage than the human decisions.
The kill decision in robots in the air, in robots on the ground, in robots in the water or under water, where there are also drones is made by or can be made by machines.
In my book, I quote: many official United States Government Documents which say, "Our goal is to have the kill decision made by them."
The problem is, artificial intelligence sometimes.....makes mistakes.
This is "Talon", an automatic cannon. Yopu can put a lot of ammunition in that thing, and you can also put rockets on it.
It`s in "Iraq" since 2007. At a demonstration with US Generals and experts, the damn thing got out of control and started pointing at the audience. There was a "Marine" there, thank goodness, running across the field, who tackled it like a football player and threw it on its side, and probably prevented a couple hundred people from being killed.
This was not a reason enough to take a lucrative contract away from the company that built it, and it wasn`t enough to take the "Talon" out of "Iraq". It`s just sort of off-duty for a moment, because, you know, there were some "early stages of development", that kind of problem.
But don`t underestimate artificial intelligence, because it`s getting better every day, and it going to scare us.
Because... This has all been here and now technology, let`s go to the future, not far, just a little bit to the Internet of things, to artificial intelligence as being spread out.
It`s not a central machine in a box where you can pull the plug. Artificial intelligence is networked, like the Internet of things, and part of it may be in a smart watch or a refrigerator or in a supercomputer.
The intelligence exists only by networking it together. If the supercomputer needs more computer power, it goes there and get it out of the Internet.
It sets up a spontaneous network for its needs, which collapses when it no longer needs it.
Now, we have to be very careful, because survival is an issue for artificial intelligence. It needs to exist to be able to do the things it whats to do according to it`s program.
So it lays, like insect eggs, backups in computer programs all over the world, thousands and thousands of them, so that if we do destroy part of it, it`s still alive.
My job to you is the wake-up call, to make you aware of the problem.
Your job is to figure out how we`re going to stop this before is KILLS US.
Thank you.
Now, if you ask "Google", it`s a peacful robot, right?
He doesn`t have a gun, he dosen`t throw atomic bombs. He just walks around and stands there.
But you may have seen the superimposes of "DARPA", (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
That is the research arm of "The Pentagon". They have made a video about there robot, but when you look who made it.
Then, you see the video is made by "Lockheed Martin", whice is one of the most powerful and influential and richest weapons companies in the world.
So why is "The Pentagon" investing this money?
Why has "Lockheed Martin" taken over large aspects of the company?
This guy is called "Big Dog". He also belongs to "Google", also "DARPA" financed. Peaceful dog, right?
Unless he get caught on a maneuver with "The United States Marines", as part of a military unit.
So, these are not flower children. These are robots that have a function. And robots that have a function and an intelligence and perhaps an intelligence that goes beyond us, are dangerous things.
Now that`s a "Predator Drone", this was taken at a secret United States Air Force base in New Mexico.
"Predator drones", you`ve seen them, right? On TV, in the newspapers...
They`re old! They`re 20 years old technology. It looks very scary when "The Spiegel" and "The ARD" write about modern technology and the guy with a joystick that are killing people and "Taliban" in "Afghanistan" far away, but that`s what a modern drone looks like.
This is not a "Predator", it`s a "Pegasus" an "X-47B" owend by the Navy. It`s a jet powered machine, not like a propeller driven "Predator".
It goes 2.000 miles into enemy territory. It carries 2.000 kilos worth of explosives, and it`s run by artificial intelligence.
It starts alone, flies its mission alone, comes back alone, and here`s the clue, it lands all by itself on an aircraft carrier. Talk to any pilot you`ve ever met:
"What`s the most difficult landing area you can possibly imagine?"
He will say:
"It`s an aircraft carrier - shot runway, thing`s moving - very hard".
This thinking drone can do it, but here are the two keys to "Pegasus".
"Pegasus" is invisible. I`m not talking about stealth and being invisible to radar. I`m talking about "invisible to the human eye", and you won`t find this in any newspaper anywhere.
It`s invisible to the human eye because, the bottom has an LED layer on it, and the top has cameras, which have been removed here in the picture, which film the sky, they project on the bottom, a live picture of clouds up above the aircraft and you can hardly see it.
They`re responsible for a lot of these UFO sightings in Nevada, near the testing areas. Jet engine propulsion a reach of 2.000 miles, Start and Landing all by itself, stealth is optical stealth - you can`t see it - and the kill decision, which is required by United States law to be made by human beings, human beings must be in the loop before someone is killed by a drone, but is in the machine and it doesn`t need people.
It can decide by itself whether or not it kills somebody.
The experts say it`s going to make less misstakes and less collateral damage than the human decisions.
The kill decision in robots in the air, in robots on the ground, in robots in the water or under water, where there are also drones is made by or can be made by machines.
In my book, I quote: many official United States Government Documents which say, "Our goal is to have the kill decision made by them."
The problem is, artificial intelligence sometimes.....makes mistakes.
This is "Talon", an automatic cannon. Yopu can put a lot of ammunition in that thing, and you can also put rockets on it.
It`s in "Iraq" since 2007. At a demonstration with US Generals and experts, the damn thing got out of control and started pointing at the audience. There was a "Marine" there, thank goodness, running across the field, who tackled it like a football player and threw it on its side, and probably prevented a couple hundred people from being killed.
This was not a reason enough to take a lucrative contract away from the company that built it, and it wasn`t enough to take the "Talon" out of "Iraq". It`s just sort of off-duty for a moment, because, you know, there were some "early stages of development", that kind of problem.
But don`t underestimate artificial intelligence, because it`s getting better every day, and it going to scare us.
Because... This has all been here and now technology, let`s go to the future, not far, just a little bit to the Internet of things, to artificial intelligence as being spread out.
It`s not a central machine in a box where you can pull the plug. Artificial intelligence is networked, like the Internet of things, and part of it may be in a smart watch or a refrigerator or in a supercomputer.
The intelligence exists only by networking it together. If the supercomputer needs more computer power, it goes there and get it out of the Internet.
It sets up a spontaneous network for its needs, which collapses when it no longer needs it.
Now, we have to be very careful, because survival is an issue for artificial intelligence. It needs to exist to be able to do the things it whats to do according to it`s program.
So it lays, like insect eggs, backups in computer programs all over the world, thousands and thousands of them, so that if we do destroy part of it, it`s still alive.
My job to you is the wake-up call, to make you aware of the problem.
Your job is to figure out how we`re going to stop this before is KILLS US.
Thank you.
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