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Dystopian movies have obviously gotten it wrong. The attack drones won't be slowly scanning the forest for escapees above the canopy but will instead rip throu

Dystopian movies have obviously gotten it wrong. The attack drones won't be slowly scanning the forest for escapees above the canopy but will instead rip through the forest in large packs at 40km/hr. How uber-dystopian.

narrator 5y ago
In the future, the bad guys never miss. This is what 90% of pop sci-fi gets wrong. Speaking of fast, the Russians now have hypersonic missiles that go roughly 14,000 miles per hour. That's more than 3 miles a second! If you have a missile defense on board a ship, that means the missile defense has to detect, target and kill that missile in just a few seconds maximum.
- dan_mctree 5y ago
  Yep, we might face a world where gun drones have perfect accuracy from hundreds of meters away as well as split second kill on sight decision making. You'd be dead before you'd see it coming.
mcphage 5y ago
Like the Langoliers…
teeray 5y ago
These are basically the manhacks from Half Life 2
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  Yeah. I used to hate those things. Half-Life 2 also had surveillance drones following people all over the city.
01100011 5y ago
Yes. I think anyone who wants to see the future of warfare should take a look at robot sumo wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is The future is not Star Wars style fights where lumbering ships can't seem to reliably hit each other despite clear lines of sight. The future is fast, precise, sterile and not something a human can react to. The future is drones with knives slicing your jugular before you know they are coming. I'm an embedded SW programmer and the speed of computation still boggles my mind sometimes.
- vdfs 5y ago
  Autonomous killing drones are already here https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers-in-libya-all-on-its-own/ https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers...
- deleted 5y ago
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- oska 5y ago
  Elon Musk got mocked when he talked about robots moving so fast you'd need a strobe light to see them but typically for Musk he was just a bit too early in his timeline. Definitely the way things are going; why wouldn't they?
- deadbolt 5y ago
  This video was posted to HN a couple years ago. It's the first thing I think of whenever I watch one of these videos of new drone tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://autonomousweapons.org/ https://autonomousweapons.org/
  - narrator 5y ago
    The thing those movies get wrong is the moments of suspense when the slaughterbot is chasing it's victim. They'll be dead before they even contemplate running.
    - Aeolun 5y ago
      It’s not inconceivable that they’ll follow their victims for a bit to make sure that the face recognition doesn’t have a glitch. Apparently you can also recognize someone by the way they walk, so if you’ve recorded that before, getting them to run around for a bit provides an extra level of identification.
      - vitiral 5y ago
        Thank you for your comforting assurances.
xwdv 5y ago
And then, once finding the target, an explosive charge blows up in the drone to fire a single high speed projectile straight to the target, punching a hole clean through the forehead for a quick and humane death. You know you’re finished once you’ve locked eyes with a drone, maybe next time don’t break the law.
- anonAndOn 5y ago
  >maybe next time don’t break the law ...or engage in wrongthink. The Supreme Commander must never be questioned even in private, peasant.
Iv 5y ago
American dystopian movies always give a chance to the hero because a good ending is like an unviolable law of the Hollywood universe. In reality, automated killing happens without the target receiving previous warning.
- Lio 5y ago
  More like the end of the Sopranos then; it all goes black for the lead character.
jmnicolas 5y ago
While I have the same feeling as you, let's not forget that those things don't have unlimited range and are vulnerable to simple tools like a shotgun. Anyway if they have infrared cameras, they'd be more efficient by scanning the forest high in the sky and if they just rely on normal cameras, good old camouflage still works. I could be wrong but IMHO we're entering a period of rarefaction of resources. I don't think in the future they will waste precious resources like energy and drones to hunt common people, it will be reserved for high profile cases.

narrator 5y ago

In the future, the bad guys never miss. This is what 90% of pop sci-fi gets wrong. Speaking of fast, the Russians now have hypersonic missiles that go roughly 14,000 miles per hour. That's more than 3 miles a second! If you have a missile defense on board a ship, that means the missile defense has to detect, target and kill that missile in just a few seconds maximum.

dan_mctree 5y ago
Yep, we might face a world where gun drones have perfect accuracy from hundreds of meters away as well as split second kill on sight decision making. You'd be dead before you'd see it coming.

mcphage 5y ago

Like the Langoliers…

teeray 5y ago

These are basically the manhacks from Half Life 2

matheusmoreira 5y ago
Yeah. I used to hate those things. Half-Life 2 also had surveillance drones following people all over the city.

01100011 5y ago

Yes. I think anyone who wants to see the future of warfare should take a look at robot sumo wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is The future is not Star Wars style fights where lumbering ships can't seem to reliably hit each other despite clear lines of sight. The future is fast, precise, sterile and not something a human can react to. The future is drones with knives slicing your jugular before you know they are coming. I'm an embedded SW programmer and the speed of computation still boggles my mind sometimes.

vdfs 5y ago
Autonomous killing drones are already here https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers-in-libya-all-on-its-own/ https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers...
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oska 5y ago
Elon Musk got mocked when he talked about robots moving so fast you'd need a strobe light to see them but typically for Musk he was just a bit too early in his timeline. Definitely the way things are going; why wouldn't they?
deadbolt 5y ago
This video was posted to HN a couple years ago. It's the first thing I think of whenever I watch one of these videos of new drone tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://autonomousweapons.org/ https://autonomousweapons.org/
- narrator 5y ago
  The thing those movies get wrong is the moments of suspense when the slaughterbot is chasing it's victim. They'll be dead before they even contemplate running.
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    It’s not inconceivable that they’ll follow their victims for a bit to make sure that the face recognition doesn’t have a glitch. Apparently you can also recognize someone by the way they walk, so if you’ve recorded that before, getting them to run around for a bit provides an extra level of identification.
    - vitiral 5y ago
      Thank you for your comforting assurances.

xwdv 5y ago

And then, once finding the target, an explosive charge blows up in the drone to fire a single high speed projectile straight to the target, punching a hole clean through the forehead for a quick and humane death. You know you’re finished once you’ve locked eyes with a drone, maybe next time don’t break the law.

anonAndOn 5y ago
>maybe next time don’t break the law ...or engage in wrongthink. The Supreme Commander must never be questioned even in private, peasant.

Iv 5y ago

American dystopian movies always give a chance to the hero because a good ending is like an unviolable law of the Hollywood universe. In reality, automated killing happens without the target receiving previous warning.

Lio 5y ago
More like the end of the Sopranos then; it all goes black for the lead character.

jmnicolas 5y ago

While I have the same feeling as you, let's not forget that those things don't have unlimited range and are vulnerable to simple tools like a shotgun. Anyway if they have infrared cameras, they'd be more efficient by scanning the forest high in the sky and if they just rely on normal cameras, good old camouflage still works. I could be wrong but IMHO we're entering a period of rarefaction of resources. I don't think in the future they will waste precious resources like energy and drones to hunt common people, it will be reserved for high profile cases.