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When a swarm of killer drones comes down your neighborhood, good luck complaining "it wasn't a fair fight".
by pacala 8y ago
When a swarm of killer drones comes down your neighborhood, good luck complaining "it wasn't a fair fight".
- dragontamer 8y agoWe have fully automated homing cruise missiles since the 1980s. That's what modern combat is about these days. That's why guerilla fighters exist: to hide from US Troops because they can't win in a fair fight. They need to use civilians as shields (and there's no AI that can determine friend from foe yet). --------- The Starcraft demo was supposed to be a demonstration of intelligence. Not a demonstration of superior-accuracy and superior-dexterity that machines have. We've known for years that machines can see things at the millisecond level and react faster than us for some time. The AI problems trying to be solved today are "friend vs foe" recognition, strategic decision making, etc. etc. The AlphaGo game managed to demonstrate that. But the AlphaStar games only demonstrated what we already know about computers: Computers can click faster, and more accurately, than humans can.
- pacala 8y ago1 Tomahawk missile = $1,000,000 1 10kg payload drone = $10,000 Bonus: the killer drone can hang around for hours and tell fried from foe via biometric recognition [voice, face, gait], dutifully compiled by your nearby adtech multinational. Finally we can afford genocide on a private budget.