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>> We then moved the AI from a simulation to reality and it worked very well. I was an undergraduate at university at the time. There's tons of work like that

>> We then moved the AI from a simulation to reality and it worked very well. I was an undergraduate at university at the time. There's tons of work like that (no offense meant) and it never amounts to anything much. If you used Deep RL or imitation learning, or really any of the Big Data, statistical machine learning techniques that are well known, then it wouldn't have worked in practice. Those approaches are extremely unreliable and fail to generalise to new environments robustly enough to be of use in the real world. The reason why the article above can still ask the question "Have we seen active deployment of killer robots?" is that the question doesn't have a clear answer. If what you did as an undergraduate could really work as well as some people would like, there would be no question left to anyone's mind. Again, that's not to bash your work. NVIDIA recently announced a new "moonshot" to develop humanoid robots for domestic use. That's because there's no such thing yet. Just a quick glance at the robotics and AI literature should be enough to convince anyone that true artificial autonomy is not yet possible.

lettergram 3y ago
Eh I know what we worked on ended up being deployed in production systems. most of the team went on (not me) to found a company too: https://reconstructinc.com/ https://reconstructinc.com/
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
  That a system is deployed doesn't mean it does what it is said to do. Specifically if we're talking about self-guided missiles or loitering munitions, those are designed to be destroyed on impact and so the requirements for autonomy are much smaller. If you're talking about a gun drone that autonomously hunts down people and kills them, then that's not a technological capability currently available, at least not if you're interested in accuracy. Although, I guess that's the point, accuracy is often not a priority. Like early gun powder weapons part of the value of autonomous weapons is their potential for terror.

lettergram 3y ago

Eh I know what we worked on ended up being deployed in production systems. most of the team went on (not me) to found a company too: https://reconstructinc.com/ https://reconstructinc.com/

YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
That a system is deployed doesn't mean it does what it is said to do. Specifically if we're talking about self-guided missiles or loitering munitions, those are designed to be destroyed on impact and so the requirements for autonomy are much smaller. If you're talking about a gun drone that autonomously hunts down people and kills them, then that's not a technological capability currently available, at least not if you're interested in accuracy. Although, I guess that's the point, accuracy is often not a priority. Like early gun powder weapons part of the value of autonomous weapons is their potential for terror.