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An interesting video talked about in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

• themagician 8y ago
  I’m honestly surprised that these don’t exist already. I know the IDF was working on facial recognition for combat drones back in 2009, and I’m surprised this hasn’t been seen in the wild yet.
  • williamscales 8y ago
    I don't think we civilians would necessarily know about them if they did exist. Self-piloting drones exist, good facial recognition exists, just need to put them together.
    • lwansbrough 8y ago
      > good facial recognition exists Does it? I would guess if you're going to blow someone's head off with an autonomous drone you'd want to be pretty darn sure it's them. Though, on second thought, governements don't really care about civilian casualties anyway... Perhaps this is a pragmatic solution to lowering those counts....
      • subway 8y ago
        I imagine pulling the human element out of the loop is valuable to the military.
      • acdha 8y ago
        There are also intermediate steps before outright attacks: simply having drones which can track people in a crowd, guide ground forces, etc. has a lot of applications which wouldn’t be publicized (“officer smith recognized the resistance officer in the crowd and followed them home”). Plant some DL fakes on their phone and occupation could be very different.
      • coldtea 8y ago
        >Does it? I would guess if you're going to blow someone's head off with an autonomous drone you'd want to be pretty darn sure it's them. Why you'd say that? Major countries (not some rogue states or teams) bomb groups of civilians all the time, often missing their actual target, or killing 10-40 people in the process (even at weddings). It's not like anybody cares outside of the country of those killed.
        • candiodari 8y ago
          And of course the "assymetric threat" (read: islamic terrorists) don't just not care about this, they're actually boasting about it online and in videos that they don't care about that. Even in cases where they accidentally hit their own. So I'd add that it depends on ideology, and very few actors seem to be "above" collateral damage, and no-one cares. Or at least, not enough.
  • colordrops 8y ago
    Of course these things exist already. If it's possible, someone in the defense industry will build it. They try building things that aren't currently possible, let alone something like this that a skilled hobbyist could put together. A friend of mine quit an EE lab in grad school because they were working for the government on drones that did exactly this, but for missiles, in 1996.
  • Eridrus 8y ago
    We definitely don't have good enough face recognition for use in combat. We have face recognition that mostly works if you've got a small pool of faces and a clear photo. Not really sure why you would want to put face recognition on military robots though.
    • sitkack 8y ago
      Our ROE are fluid enough that detection will suffice, orders like "kill all the faces in this geofenced region" wouldn't seem out of the ordinary.
      • icebraining 8y ago
        It will certainly be quite surrealist to see a bunch of people standing around, just covering their faces with their hands, waiting for the drone to pass.
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    what about maduro recent speech ?
  • giancarlostoro 8y ago
    Whats to stop Facebook from taking a contract like this? Scary.
  • slim 8y ago
    Maybe you've seen it failing in the wild https://theintercept.com/2018/08/11/israel-palestine-drone-strike-operation-protective-edge/ https://theintercept.com/2018/08/11/israel-palestine-drone-s...
• agumonkey 8y ago
  fun but what about having net technology ?