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This is just proof of principle of weaponized AI, but this is absolutely revolutionary. All the pieces are already here now for a Raytheon or some other compan

This is just proof of principle of weaponized AI, but this is absolutely revolutionary. All the pieces are already here now for a Raytheon or some other company to manufacture robots that can conduct offense/defense. Put this in an urban hot zone with enemy detection, millisecond precision targeting, and tactical objectives (defend this entrance, clear that chokepoint), and you've changed the face of warfare overnight. I'd argue building out weaponized AI is an easier problem than self-driving cars. We've already normalized collateral damage in war so this doesn't need to work perfectly to be highly effective.

foxyv 4y ago
I agree, however I would like to point out that Collateral Damage has been the norm for all of the history of warfare. The reduction of collateral damage by smart munitions and rules of engagement is an extremely new thing and still a foreign concept to most militaries. It's essentially a luxury afforded to countries so powerful that they can expend resources to not destroy the entire country they are fighting. Collateral damage hasn't been normalized, in fact the opposite has occurred. Much worse, the idea of a "Clean War" has been normalized. The only clean war is NO war.
- orwin 4y ago
  Not in my opinion, collateral damage appeared as the fire lethality soared. I'd say the US civil War was probably the first time you could really find collateral victims. Once the fire became as lethal as the shock I'd say
  - thatguy0900 4y ago
    This doesn't really make sense. Genghis khan massacred entire cities. Soldiers don't just go home when the enemy army is routed. Historically, the first thing they want to do is pillage and rape.
    - zardo 4y ago
      I guess to count as collateral damage they would need to at least pretend it was unintentional. Massacring cities that didn't surrender was a deliberate strategy.
      - foxyv 4y ago
        Collateral damage before the ages of strategic bombing and artillery usually consisted of stuff like famine, fire, and exposure. Not that any of the militaries of the time really gave a flying fig. War back then was more along the lines of national scale murder rather than the extension of politics by force. Collateral damage is a new concept that originated during Vietnam. Before then it was just "War", "Burn the Heretic", and "Don't hurt the new slaves!"

foxyv 4y ago

I agree, however I would like to point out that Collateral Damage has been the norm for all of the history of warfare. The reduction of collateral damage by smart munitions and rules of engagement is an extremely new thing and still a foreign concept to most militaries. It's essentially a luxury afforded to countries so powerful that they can expend resources to not destroy the entire country they are fighting. Collateral damage hasn't been normalized, in fact the opposite has occurred. Much worse, the idea of a "Clean War" has been normalized. The only clean war is NO war.

orwin 4y ago
Not in my opinion, collateral damage appeared as the fire lethality soared. I'd say the US civil War was probably the first time you could really find collateral victims. Once the fire became as lethal as the shock I'd say
- thatguy0900 4y ago
  This doesn't really make sense. Genghis khan massacred entire cities. Soldiers don't just go home when the enemy army is routed. Historically, the first thing they want to do is pillage and rape.
  - zardo 4y ago
    I guess to count as collateral damage they would need to at least pretend it was unintentional. Massacring cities that didn't surrender was a deliberate strategy.
    - foxyv 4y ago
      Collateral damage before the ages of strategic bombing and artillery usually consisted of stuff like famine, fire, and exposure. Not that any of the militaries of the time really gave a flying fig. War back then was more along the lines of national scale murder rather than the extension of politics by force. Collateral damage is a new concept that originated during Vietnam. Before then it was just "War", "Burn the Heretic", and "Don't hurt the new slaves!"