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We already have drones with cameras, drones with guns, and drones that are autonomous. How long until someone combines these?
by wan23 6y ago
We already have drones with cameras, drones with guns, and drones that are autonomous. How long until someone combines these?
- bigbubba 6y agoA few decades ago? What is a fire-and-forget guided missile but an autonomous suicide drone? Some missiles, particularly anti-ship missiles, even use computer vision in the air to identify objects and pick targets. Mark 60 CAPTOR naval mines sit underwater listening to nearby ships. When a noise is classified as an enemy ship, the mine releases a guided torpedo to kill it. Of course autonomy in naval mines is nothing new; the most basic sort 'decide' to kill any object that bumps them too hard. The innovation is making them discriminate between enemy ships and everybody else.
- angry_octet 6y agoThe point is not that autonomous weapons systems are possible, but that their existence does not presage SkyNet, and the whole discussion distracts from the real societal impact, like some people being denied shelter/finance/employment/social connection/etc based on opaque ML boxes that intrinsically discriminate but in a way that can't be easily interrogated it controlled with legislation or court action.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoAlready done. https://www.defensenews.com/video/2019/05/31/watch-this-israeli-robot-fire-a-glock-9mm-weapon/ https://www.defensenews.com/video/2019/05/31/watch-this-isra... : Video: Watch this Israeli robot fire a Glock 9mm weapon Israel’s General Robotics has demonstrated what it says is the world’s first operational armed robot, the DOGO. (Seth J. Frantzman/Staff)