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We currently have drones with missiles and quadcopters with grenades. They can be piloted remotely by a human. The day that someone sets up a quadcopter contr

• tialaramex 9y ago
  There's a fun SF short about AI drones in which the AI is taught to go after lifeforms which are larger and have weapons [enemy soldiers] and prefer to avoid attacks which will harm large numbers of the smaller lifeforms that make high-pitched noises and don't have weapons [civilian women and children], and its military commanders are able to override this. Over time the commanders order more and more overrides, and it gets intolerable. Eventually the AI looks at the "enemy" who are mostly smaller and making high pitched sounds, and it looks at the source of its override commands, who are big lifeforms with lots of weapons, and it decides what to do about that...
  • macleodnine 9y ago
    Do you have a link or title? Sounds interesting
    • philipkglass 9y ago
      Malak, by Peter Watts: http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf
• colordrops 9y ago
  > The day that someone sets up a quadcopter controlled by AI and computer vision Already been done a long time ago, just not by civilians.