China's New Policing Computer Is Frontend Cattle Prod, Backend Supercomputer (computerworld.com) 69
Earlier this year, we learned about China's first "intelligent security robot," which was said to include "electrically charged riot control tool." We now know what this robot is up to, and what its developed unit looks like. Reader dcblogs writes: China recently deployed what it calls a "security robot" in a Shenzhen airport. It's named AnBot and patrols around the clock. It is a cone-shaped robot that includes a cattle prod. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which look at autonomous system deployments in a report last week, said AnBot, which has facial recognition capability, is designed to be linked with China's latest supercomputers. AnBot may seem like a 'Saturday Night Live' prop, but it's far from it. The back end of this "intelligent security robot" is linked to China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, where it has access to cloud services. AnBot conducts patrols, recognizes threats and has multiple cameras that use facial recognition. These cloud services give the robots petascale processing power, well beyond onboard processing capabilities in the robot. The supercomputer connection is there "to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices," said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review.
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The cattle prod you are looking for are the words "excuse me", it is remarkable how much being polite makes life easier. I know that as an autist, you likely have problems actually saying things to people, and as a fellow sufferer, I understand, but there is no need to use a cattle prod, being polite works far more often, and won't get you thrown in jail.
Oh my. I can't wait until this gets hacked. (Score:1)
Or is it Hirarity enshues?
Re:Oh my. I can't wait until this gets hacked. (Score:5, Funny)
Cattle prods improve learning! (Score:3)
"to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices,"
I've observed that a cattle prod is an effective motivator to enhance learning. It works really well on programmers.
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And like '60s Doctor Who... (Score:5, Funny)
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No that's how they get you https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
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And they'll build Version 2. And you'll break it.
And they'll build Version 3. And you'll break it.
And ...
They'll still have their secret police for the ones that get way out of line. But for 99% of the population this works just fine.
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And they'll build Version 2. And you'll break it.
And they'll build Version 3. And you'll break it.
And ...
If Monty Python is truly our guide, version 4 will be the winner. [youtube.com]
New Botnet Awesomeness (Score:4, Insightful)
How awesome will this be when it gets hijacked for service in an IoT botnet?
What could possibly go wrong?
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"Includes a Cattle Prod" (Score:3)
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Yes, basic understanding of HTML 1.0 is now beyond the Slashdot editors.
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Or they just made a mistake.
That happens sometimes to actual people.
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Odd (Score:1)
All 'Skynet' jokes aside.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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I can only assume you are joking? The US certainly has a problem but China doesn't even recognize human/civil rights as existing.
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The individual is the largest majority in any society, anything that benefits individuals is in the interest of 100% of the members of society every time. Unfortunately, when it comes time to
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Just like there are tons of people who right now would give up their human/civil rights for more stability. Go ask people in Syria which they would rather have, if they had a strict choice between the two.
Also I don't think you understand history very well. Almost all of E. Asia, while in the process of growing their economy from the 1940s-1980s were run by dictorial powers that didn't give a rats ass about individual civil rights or human rights. However, dictatorship ended after the society had achieve
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I think those in Syria and Libya would certainly say that US doesn't just merely have a "problem" with human/civil rights, but a HUGE problem. Maybe we should lump in Iraq as well.
We can also look at Vietnam, Afghanistan in the 80s, etc. Also look at when the US was a colonizer, and their record in the Philippines. The support of terrorist, Wahhabist states who are against almost all human/civil rights.
So don't say the US has just a "problem", because that would be extremely hypocritical.
Just because Chi
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Are you even in the U.S.? Are you a U.S. or Chinese citizen, or maybe just here on a visa, or even here illegally, as an operative for the communist Chinese government?
I wonder, do they pay well? Is it a monthly stipend, or is this piece-work, and you're paid per comment or article you post? Is it by the word, maybe?
Communist
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Tell me, friend: How much does the Chinese government pay you to spread propaganda for them in U.S. media?
Clearly not enough to make it convincing. Posts like this are common enough that I wonder if they are purposefully lacking in subtlety. They could be good enough to please the posters' superiors, while also serving as a defense mechanism to retain some part of their souls.
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Jam its WiFi (Score:2)
Great thinking, a police robot that can be neutered with a WiFi jammer.
No problem (Score:2)
It will be trivially easy to disable China's entire army of robot enforcers.
1. Sneak into the supercomputer base. This is usually possible by jumping onto the back of a delivery truck.
2. These facilities always have air ducts connecting every room. The ducts are always well lit, and at big enough for two people to crawl through them abreast. Jump into the nearest duct, find the supercomputer, pull out the grate that is just resting on the ceiling, then jump down onto it.
3. Nobody will be in the room at fir
Is this real? (Score:2)
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No. Its a conspiracy. That way when the robots run amok and kill Chinese citizens they can blame it on the Gaijin - The robots had English writing so America must have sent them.
Didn't we learn from Iron Man 2... (Score:2)
... that using centralized control over your army of robots was a poor design choice?
Facial Recognition? (Score:2)
Chinese Supercomputers.... (Score:1)
When the US, Europe or Japan builds a fantastically expensive new supercomputer they use it to study the high energy physics of a star or climate modeling or some other science with extreme computational needs while in China they apparently build supercomputer to link to cattle-prod bearing robots meant to monitor and control the populace.
And there are still people that think China is going to win some worldwide battle of culture.
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The US has enough Supercomputers doing facial recognition. 80% of police departments use them. The computers feltover from spying are used for Space science high energy physics. True story - In the 2000s when the NSA launched their new series of telescopes pointed downwards/ spy satellites they offered to let NASA use the old batch launched in the 80s and 90s. NASA scientists had their egos crushed when they realized these space telescopes were still better than Hubble and Chndra even though they launched 2