How well do YOU know your cat? The 13 secret signals felines give their owners... and what they mean
Our feline friends constantly communicate their feelings of affection to us, whether it be through their whiskers, tail, face or body language.
How well do YOU know your cat? The 13 secret signals felines give their owners... and what they mean
Our feline friends constantly communicate their feelings of affection to us, whether it be through their whiskers, tail, face or body language.
14. Jumping on you in the middle of the night and waving my arse in your face when you waken up.
ReplyDeleteMeaning: I'm bored and thought I'd have a laugh at your expense. Now that your awake any chance you could feed me or let me out.
US air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operator
ReplyDeleteDenial follows colonel saying drone used ‘highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal’ in virtual test
“The US air force has denied it has conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to ‘kill’ its operator to prevent it from interfering with its efforts to achieve its mission.
“An official said last month that in a virtual test staged by the US military, an air force drone controlled by AI had used ‘highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal’.
“Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton described a simulated test in which a drone powered by artificial intelligence was advised to destroy an enemy’s air defence systems, and ultimately attacked anyone who interfered with that order.
“‘The system started realising that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,’ said Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations with the US air force, during the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London in May.
“‘So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,’ he said, according to a blogpost …”
https://web.archive.org/web/20230526104304/https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test
It's also widely thought cats have an ability to keep negative forces - 'evil spirits' - away, to the benefit of those who care for them.
ReplyDeleteThis may be why sometimes when at home with you, cats seem very proud and a bit preoccupied.