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There's a comic out right now positing that a sufficiently intelligent AI with appropriate access could use imperceptible (to us) vibrations from mechanical com
by NilMostChill 1y ago
There's a comic out right now positing that a sufficiently intelligent AI with appropriate access could use imperceptible (to us) vibrations from mechanical computing parts like spinning rust HDD's etc.
It's a throwaway mechanic in the comic, but it seems plausible.
In certain places the power companies are/were passing time information throughout the whole grid - https://www.nist.gov/publications/time-and-frequency-electrical-power-lines https://www.nist.gov/publications/time-and-frequency-electri...
- khafra 1y agoThat's not a comic, and it's not artificial superintelligence: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05915 https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05915 Whatever AI comes up with by 2030 is going to be much more clever and unexpected.
- NilMostChill 1y agoThe comic(manga actually) i was referring to was "Origin" by the manga author Boichi. I'll have a read of the paper, seems like it's similar in concept
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoYou don't need an AI to come up with remote sensing or air gap traversal capabilities though. Note for example TEMPEST surveillance, or using a distant laser to pickup speech in a room based on window vibrations. Air-gap traversal is easily done by exploiting human weaknesses (e.g. curiousity to pick up a USB drive to see what's on it), and was successfully done by Stuxnet.
- NilMostChill 1y agoIndeed, there are lots of methods, but i was specifically thinking of the possibility of a method an isolated AI might feasibly figure out with only the tools it has easily available to it. But as someone said earlier, the real interesting part is when/if they start figuring out novel concepts we as humans haven't even considered.