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[Important Note: Some links (especially Ars Technica) are NSFW for US government employees as they contain slides that are marked "Top Secret". Exercise discretion/caution in this story's comments, too. -Ed.]
Yes, it is cloud-based, yes, it does decide about the fate of hundreds of humans, and yes, ultimately it does direct robots to kill innocent humans.
SKYNET is a system created by the NSA that applies machine learning algorithms to supposedly determine the likelihood of someone turning into a terrorist based on mobile phone metadata. According to slides published at Ars Technica, evil acts like switching off your mobile phone (= evading surveillance), switching SIM cards (= trying unsuccessfully to evade surveillance, thanks to IMEI, etc.), swapping phones with others (= trying unsuccessfully to evade surveillance, thanks to other surveillance data) will be taken together as indicators of your evil intentions.
Patrick Ball—a data scientist and the executive director at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group—who has previously given expert testimony before war crimes tribunals, described the NSA's methods as "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:19AM
It's got nothing on Genisys. Things evolve. The Borg evolve. The feminists evolve.
\begin{trailer}
\scene{I/O Tower}
\character{Dumont} \dialog{It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.}
\character{Quorra} \dialog{What is it?}
\character{Dumont} \dialog{This is the Codex of Xe'mpp. Protect it well, and it will protect you, for you must go far beyond the known net to seek the five citadels.}
\narrator{Next Spring}
\scene{The Web}
\character{Matrix} \dialog{Armies of Mainframe!}
\character{armies of mainframe} \dialog{Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!}
\character{Matrix} \dialog{Prepare for full frontal assault! Fire wall!}
\narrator{Two women}
\scene{Gamecube}
\action* {A trident is cast from above, barely missing Quorra.}
\character*[voiceonly] \dialog{Who dares trespass into my realm?!}
\character{Quorra} \dialog{AndrAIa, I seek your assistance! I cannot complete my quest without the help of another isomorphic algorithm!}
\character{AndrAIa} \action{Swiftly retrieves the trident and thrusts it against Quorra's throat, stopping a the last second} \dialog{What is it that you want, irregular?}
\narrator{The fate of the net hangs in the balance}
\character{AndrAIa} \dialog{Things between Matrix and I… they're different, ever since Hex passed away.}
\scene{Mainframe CMOS}
\character{Matrix} \dialog{Bob, what are we gonna do?}
\character{Bob} \dialog{We'll do the same as we always have, Matrix. We'll protect the 'net.}
\scene {I/O Tower}
\character{Dumont} \dialog{Fare thee well, child. I fear there is nothing more an old protocol such as myself is to do.}
\movietitle{Secret of Xe'mpp}[Spring 2017][PG]
\transition{cut}[blackscreen]
\character*[voiceonly] \dialog{End of line.}
\end{trailer}
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:26AM
What a fucking annoying way to write a post.
Could you be any more narcissistic?
(Score: 4, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday February 17 2016, @04:21AM
I could be!
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday February 17 2016, @06:12AM
I kinda liked it once I got used to it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @02:11PM
You don't even see the code any more, a blond, a brunet ...
(Score: 2) by ragequit on Wednesday February 17 2016, @12:29PM
Looks like Latex.
I'm NOT the only one!
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