Software/Solutions, Fabrication or Assembly, What Are We Doing?

Is your company or organization fabricating solutions and/or software systems or are you simply assembling pieces and parts of pre-built components into some sort of "system" that performs some set of functions or capabilities? What constitutes true creation, development, or fabrication. One source defines fabrication as "Manufacturing process in which an item is made (fabricated) from raw or semi-finished materials instead of being assembled from ready-made components or parts."

Are the Tenets of Islam Undemocratic?

Are the tenets of Islam as expressed in the Quran and Sharia Law and as interpreted by the majority in majority Muslim nations inherently undemocratic? I mean if the tenets expressed for example in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://lnkd.in/dYJV5MF signed by most nations on earth and the similar US Declaration of Independence and the US Bill of Rights do represent moral tenets, a kind of political, social, and cultural morality then a religion, as a set of moral tenets could disagree but in any nation one must publicly, legally, politically take precedent.

To be clear, I am implying that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the US Declaration of Independence, the US Bill of Rights, and documents similar in meaning to them represent the defining characteristics of a democracy, in the absence of which or without public belief in a nation is NOT democratic.

The Next Frontier in Cyber-Warfare

With so many researchers and organizations working on AI or pseudo-AI, powerful analysis systems with vast resources and data, inevitably those systems may be directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, used against one another. Instead of Ray Kurzweil's all powerful AI technological singularity we may instead see a multiplicity of very powerful AI systems come to fruition.


What if these systems were taught to deceive other AI systems through manipulation of the data that the other system uses or depends on? What if one system hacked another? What if they cooperated? What if they fought? What if they just caused errors by accident in each other's analysis simply be acting in ways that subverted each other's data, assumptions, logic, etc? Or created feedback loops within each other systems such that they caused each others predictions or analysis or conclusions to be true or false when they would or would not have been otherwise merely through their unintentional interaction?


Maybe this is all science fiction but for how long? And what about AI counter-measures?