A CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a vivid illustration of autonomous weapons and machines that keep running after their creators are gone.
What it is
A 3-minute CGI animated sci-fi short by Dima Fedotov. An automated war system keeps a lone bomber attacking a long-dead city after humanity has been wiped out, until life finds a way to survive.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec blitmap · 2020-06 · on “The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD”
I'm not sure how contributory to the discussion this is, but I love watching this short every couple years: [this video] (I love it in the sense that I'd love a dystopian scifi movie, but not a reality like this)
Cites blitmap · 2020-03 · on “Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut off after April 2020”
For the most part, at least we don't have to worry about forgotten, rogue IoT devices. The overriding mission has been to connect it to shitty online services. Watch these companies go out of business or deprecate APIs. This is very dramatic, but imagine something like this: [this video]
Cites bartmika · 2021-03 · on “DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights”
> What puzzles me is that as of yet, there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy, which seems like a MUCH more powerful application than this stuff. It'll probably be so effective, it'll still be fighting long after all of humanity has destroyed itself and left an irradiated environment. Here are two science fiction short videos of an artist depicting such a future: "LAST DAY OF WAR" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros - [LINK] "Fortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotof | TheCGBros - [this video] (edit: typofix)
Cites throw_nbvc1234 · 2023-05 · on “Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern”
identify a target decide to attack the target implement the attack determine the result of the attack If humans are required for the decision, then humans have an inherent hook to prevent more attacks. Otherwise you run into scenarios like [this video] where humans are incapacitated and AI just continue on like nothing has happened. It makes the failure modes more sane. It's not a catch-all but a good agreeable step to take.