#135 SI aka AI and patterns
Sound is just vibrations through the air, some we can hear and others we can’t. Different animals can hear different ranges. A dog can hear some things humans can’t.. but we can create things like SDRs that allow us to see and hear sound. Now we can make use of these two new senses unfortunately we can’t smell sound but seeing and hearing sound is good enough for a computer.
In this example I have 3 ICs 1 8-bit and 2 32-bit microcontrollers they are made by different manufacturers and are slightly different in some ways and very different in other ways. These 3 ICs are transmitting the same signal in the same way using the same code and the same transmitter with the same wire lengths and tolerances.
The variable is the IC. I have tried to isolate it as best i can, as much as possible with the equipment I have at this point in time.
Now I play the signal and record the pattern the pattern looks the same at a glance but using audacity we can “zoom in” (there’s other fancy software, but I’m using audacity for this example) we can see there is very subtle changes in some parts of the signal other parts are very easy to differentiate.
To do this analysis of the same signal generated from different devices: of the same type e.g. all using stm32 or different types stm32,py32,ch32 has to be done with a SBC or PC as decent computing power to analyse the signal is required but it’s very affordable these days…
So what happens when we analyse these subtle signal differences?
Well we are able to fingerprint the previously non fingerprintable electronic device, just by measuring these differences from a known signal that is emitting the device has already told us what it’s unique ID is…
The devices imperfections.. the devices personality becomes the fingerprint.. that unique crystal that’s slightly off frequency? Well that’s another tattle-tail telling someone a unique characteristic of your device whatever the electronic device may be.. mobile phone, bank terminal, aircraft avionics, google glasses or.. your pace maker.. your sick family members medical equipment. The vulnerable always become easy prey first.
Similar types of fingerprinting has been done in the past though now with AI there’s been a huge boom.. AI has made it so easy to control through technology on scales that have never been seen before using patterns that were very difficult to find or process in the past.
Philosophical tangent starts here XD
With the explosion of AI(SI) it is now possible for a minority group to implement a global device tracking system with much less employees, resources, restriction, laws and accountability… but most important of all.. humans will struggle to ~prove the use or non-use of these tools without a reasonable doubt.. without the use of another AI.. and can it be trusted? Especially when lives are on the line? used as a tool with a human master who has strong ethics, morals and accountability with extraordinary judgment… well maybe.. but lets be honest.. how many of these people exist?
It may sound very negative and anti AI but on the contrary I find it extraordinary useful with the potential to be a net positive.. it’s just that humans have a pattern written in the blood of many that shows without a reasonable doubt that this will be used for evil in some way or form and we are not ready for the consequences of that..
It can’t be taken lightly this is the biggest evolution since the internet, and it’s extremely hard for the average joe to build any business or life or use it (AI SI) without requiring payment of some kind to the AI overlords. I feel as if this will be used more like a new kingdom making weapon, subjugating the world to a new boot… the artificial intelligence boot.. we will see the return of a new world one ruled by AI monarchies… the British empire will look like child’s play to the new AI empire and the minority group of elitists that hold the power like gods with everyone being connected.. controlling anyone through “the click of a button” will most certainly become the norm… There are a lot of scary things in the world.. real scary things and this is one of them no nonsense this is real not science fiction.
Luckily.. as with everything this outcome “depends” on events occurring a certain way. There is a chance that things can go the right way for once. Though the circle will go on and on and on history repeating itself or rather rhyming with itself and mocking the current Ignorant humans in power, the time it takes to be born go through school and start a life just takes too long.. and there is too few people passing down genuine knowledge to their offspring, getting them up to speed as fast as possible without the poison of other educators is getting more and more difficult. Here’s where I’ll just say it.. if a vampire lives forever it would be of great use to find one and have a quick chit chat around this time… guaranteed you’d get something useful out of the interaction.. as long as you survive.
Of course I hope I’m wrong, I want to be wrong.. but our fellow man never cease to disappoint us.. just as we disappoint ourselves sometimes. I really hope that a lot of smart people can figure out a way to make this work and actually benefit everyone.. kind of like electricity benefits all.
However, perhaps we should go off to Mars, make it realistically possible, two worlds are better then one, just like people thought aircraft were impossible and just like a caveman couldn’t even comprehend or fathom the use of what a mobile phone is other then maybe to use it as a light source until the battery went flat then perhaps it would be used as a decorative piece. It may be that there is a technology, a force or a power right under our noises and we just don’t have the understanding.. the drive.. just not ready yet but its there.. patiently waiting to be found as long as there is someone to find it.
~C.A Torino
