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>For every 10 hours of looking at roads, you'll see 1 guy digging a hole and emplacing an IED or burying wire under the road. Those "side quest" missions save a
by friendlybus 7y ago
>For every 10 hours of looking at roads, you'll see 1 guy digging a hole and emplacing an IED or burying wire under the road. Those "side quest" missions save a lot of soldiers.
Is this something that could be helped by all the recent machine learning computer vision advances? Maybe they can delegate side resources to having automated scanning for flaggable behaviours appearing on screen.
- brlewis 7y agoShould these tactical details be deleted, or were they already public?
- friendlybus 7y agoI mean it's just a guess from watching google talks on self driving cars and the constant splurging of academic research on machine learning. Two minute papers is a horrifying youtube channel because of the pace of change it is showing. There have been a whole bunch of talks about AI in warfare already, so anybody who is interested in the industry can put 2 + 2 together way better than I can.
- goatinaboat 7y agoIs this something that could be helped by all the recent machine learning computer vision advances? That is exactly the thing that Google employees are protesting against.
- ancorevard 7y agoTrue, they protest working for the US armed forces. But working for Communist Party of China‘s own army is apparently ok. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-google-idUSKCN1QV296 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-google-idUSKCN1...
- nostrademons 7y agoThey protest that too. Dragonfly got nearly as much employee resignations & protests as Maven did. (More to the point, this is conflating parts with the whole: Google management is in favor of working with both the US armed forces and Chinese censors, while Google employees are against both.)
- 420codebro 7y agoI hope the CEO fires every one their worthless asses.
- greedo 7y agoSomething like Gorgon Stare would be a good fit.