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AI researchers over romanticize their robot AI technology. They don't know enough about wars. Morality is something we talk about outside of the battlefield. I
by dnprock 8y ago
AI researchers over romanticize their robot AI technology. They don't know enough about wars. Morality is something we talk about outside of the battlefield.
It is not going to be your robot army fighting a human army. Instead, it will be your robot army fighting another robot army, perhaps less sophisticated.
They'll supplement their disadvantage with humans. You want to be the army with more advanced robots. Otherwise you'll need to put humans on the line. Always better to equip yourself with better fighting capability.
- onion2k 8y agoIt is not going to be your robot army fighting a human army. Instead, it will be your robot army fighting another robot army, perhaps less sophisticated. I don't think there are any current conflicts[1] that could reasonably be described as being between two armies. It's more often between one group of armies from several countries working together and several groups of [terrorists|freedom fighters|"unlawful combatants" ] using guerrilla tactics to attack them. The exception are the ongoing civil wars, but they tend to be an army fighting rebel groups in that country - would rebels ever get their own robots? How would that happen? It's obviously possible that we'll see two armies of robots fighting in the future, but that's not really what war is right now. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli...
- dnprock 8y agoThe Syrian government got Russian weapons, air support. They even have chemical weapons. One side or many sides. You can be sure that the other sides are not fighting with their bare hands.