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Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Please, give them a mouth with toxin injecting teeth, and I'll get my flamethrower and play Guy Montag.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Do they also shoot tracker tacks?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So we made Metalhead from Black Mirror? Cool....cool cool cool...so uhh... how do I wake up from this nightmare again?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Turkey has the STM Kargu, which reportedly was devastating in the most recent # Nagorno-Karabakh fighting, as the autonomous suicide drone can’t be jammed

Ukrainian units have (reportedly) already loaded ‘final approach’ AI target tracking and flight controls on their suicide FPV & glider drones, to counter Russian RF jammers mounted on tanks and heavy vehicles

We really, really aren’t prepared for the threat vector that cheap (sub $500/ea for FPV) and autonomous drones provide, and every RF engineer and drone enthusiast I’ve spoken to has no good counter aside from barriers like nets. And that’s just the ones that fly their bombs INTO things, drone-dropped explosives are hard to detect without thermal imagers or specialized radar/acoustic detection

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Soon we'll have autonomous drone hunter drones. And then drone hunter hunters. And drone hunter hunter hunters. And so on. The future will be wild.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

can't wait to find out from some investigation that the robots have been choosing to fire on their own for like 1.5 of the 2 years they were deployed in combat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Fucking hell. I had really hoped that the world could have gotten off its collective ass to ratify some international agreement limiting the use of AI for shit like this before we'd start seeing these headlines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

No amount of treaties is ever going to prevent the weaponisation of AI. Nobody can afford to not do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, even before this, AI has been in actual implementation by Israel to kill Palestinians, so there's no way any Western country would have agreed to ban it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can somebody whip together an emp grenade to counteract these bastards?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

A lot of this stuff is shielded. Their biggest weakness is command takeover, where some form of injection attack can give you the unit, especially when they’re AI-based. I’m sure there’s plenty of research on this and the money won’t be considered necessary to plug the holes making impossible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Hey, fuck this noise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Been watching the Terminator movies with my boy recently. He's only 9 but he has noticed how close the dates are already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Get them in operation now!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're cheering for the wrong team.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do we know that they are not AI?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

How, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

we are living in the future! the terrifying, horrific future!