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>"...that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes." These drone strikes have been h
by meri_dian 9y ago
>"...that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes."
These drone strikes have been happening for decades without interpretive AI, and they will probably continue with or without. So let's make the strikes more precise and save more civilians.
>"But improved analysis of drone video could be used to pick out human targets for strikes, while also better identifying civilians to reduce the accidental killing of innocent people."
- shadofx 9y agoThe need for human operators to identify targets serves as a hard logistical limit to how many drone strikes can be delivered. Turning them into a machine removes that limit. Suppose you decrease error rate by 10% (optimistic), but increase volume by 20% (probably underestimated). You'll get an 8% increase in innocent deaths.
- meri_dian 9y agoWhere are you coming up with those percentages? Why are you assuming that human operators will be removed from the decision making process?
- walshemj 9y agoThe hard logistical limit is the cost and the number of airframes.
- titzer 8y agoNo, it actually is the amount of eyeballs to analyze drone footage. They literally have so much footage feeding in that they can no longer review it with humans. This tech is designed to make the surveillance dragnet feeding into military decisions more automated and efficient.