Saturday, January 27, 2024

Google Eric Schmidt: White Stork: AI attack drones


https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-ai-attack-drones-white-stork-2024-1

Anyone remember, "Don't be evil?" 

"In a 2013 NPR interview, Eric Schmidt revealed that when Larry Page and Sergey Brin recommended the motto as a guiding principle for Google, he "thought this was the stupidest rule ever", but then changed his opinion..."

'24 Eric Schmidt: Ah, fuck it, let's take the crown.

Maybe Eric Schmidt remembers the Aesop's fable, "The Frogs Who Desired for a King."

White Stork is a carnivorous bird that picks off a wide range of animal prey, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and small birds. 

Sounds like a good name for an AI attack drone to me.

But wait, here's a humanitarian aid organization named for Ukraine's national bird, the White Stork:

https://whitestork.us/about

While everybody's squabbling over the symbol, let's get one thing straight:

Is the mission of a White Stork to deliver aid, attack drones, or babies?

No doubt, plenty of babies are being delivered to Ukraine, and they're wearing boots.

Schmidt may claim to have formed White Stork Group in the name of Ukraine, but Swift Beat Holdings LLC was the name of the original vision, and it wasn't on a mission of passing out pickles.