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Russia Is Building War Robots: A Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun
- walrus01 9y agoTo what extent this is actually autonomous is unknown. South Korea has been building remotely controlled gun turrets for some time now: https://www.google.com/search?q=south+korea+gun+turret&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=south+korea+gun+turret&ie=ut... Having a human in the loop viewing high resolution video/night-vision/infrared and deciding whether or not to pull the trigger still seems essential. It would be reckless to turn loose a fully automated gun robot that identified and shot things based on some form of neural network image recognition... Really good way to end up in a bunch of blue-on-blue incidents in an active combat zone.
- GauntletWizard 9y agoAs an alternative to landmines as an area-denial weapon, this is great. It's relatively simple to disarm (presuming you've added some sort of networking capability to receive control signals) and capable of far more targeted destruction while also being far more deadly. But landmines are (fairly rightly so) generally recognized as being a war crime, and I'm not sure this is enough of an improvement.