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Mounting a facial recognition face-tracking camera-gun combo is somehow going to be inaccurate? Walk the dog round the corner of a bank-heist hostage situation,

Mounting a facial recognition face-tracking camera-gun combo is somehow going to be inaccurate? Walk the dog round the corner of a bank-heist hostage situation, have it stand on guard and shoot whenever it gets a human verified lock? I know saying use 'technology' is like saying use 'magic', but all of this seems totally within the boundaries of what is available today or near-tomorrow at the very least. As for cops being shot up by one of these, I am not sure many criminals would see the value of investing significant amount of money and know-how into one. Especially as it would easily be traced back to a purchaser. SWAT teams with just the recon implementation is worrisome enough as that's clearly just a stone-throw to a weaponized version once they gain confidence in it.

Y_Y 8y ago
> bank-heist hostage situation, have it stand on guard and shoot whenever it gets a human verified lock It's about time someone disrupted the field of killing hostages.
- wombatpm 8y ago
  Why can't we do the same thing with a swarm of cheap drones with a single shot zip gun? Navigate to within a couple feet and shot them in the face?
  - monkeynotes 8y ago
    The future is bleak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
  - mmirate 8y ago
    Because then you grab yourself another swarm of the same cheap drones and program them to shoot their zipguns at the enemy drones.
gehwartzen 8y ago
This discussion reminded me of a scene from the movie The Jackal in which an assassin basically mounts a rifle on a three-axis motorized mount, connects a calibrated camera to a mounted scope, and then mounts the thing in a truck/van and parks it near the target and uses it over a laptop w/ wireless connection. I think this was in the 90s and I remember thinking, at the time, video bandwidth and latency would be the biggest obsticle but now days it seems like this setup would be near trivial. When I just tried to google the scene I saw an ISIS setup of virtually the same thing :/

Y_Y 8y ago

> bank-heist hostage situation, have it stand on guard and shoot whenever it gets a human verified lock It's about time someone disrupted the field of killing hostages.

wombatpm 8y ago
Why can't we do the same thing with a swarm of cheap drones with a single shot zip gun? Navigate to within a couple feet and shot them in the face?
- monkeynotes 8y ago
  The future is bleak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
- mmirate 8y ago
  Because then you grab yourself another swarm of the same cheap drones and program them to shoot their zipguns at the enemy drones.

gehwartzen 8y ago

This discussion reminded me of a scene from the movie The Jackal in which an assassin basically mounts a rifle on a three-axis motorized mount, connects a calibrated camera to a mounted scope, and then mounts the thing in a truck/van and parks it near the target and uses it over a laptop w/ wireless connection. I think this was in the 90s and I remember thinking, at the time, video bandwidth and latency would be the biggest obsticle but now days it seems like this setup would be near trivial. When I just tried to google the scene I saw an ISIS setup of virtually the same thing :/