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> swarms of drones are being developed such that they can fly to a designated “kill box,” find and identify enemy tanks, then destroy them – all without any hum
by tamimio 2y ago
> swarms of drones are being developed such that they can fly to a designated “kill box,” find and identify enemy tanks, then destroy them – all without any human pilot interaction.
I remember I mentioned that this the future of drones few years ago and everyone in the seminar laughed about it, but it’s a reality now. The next one is AI deciding what to target, which I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties.
- woah 2y agoWhat's worse: a bomb destroying everything in a certain radius, or a drone killing all enemy combatants in that same radius with a 10% false positive rate?
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- ajmurmann 2y ago> I believe is already in place as Israel is using it already, and apparently failing miserably with all the civilians casualties. I don't think we have the data to reliably determine the impact of Israel's AI usage on civilian casualties. Sam Harris this week had an expert for urban and subterranean warfare from West Point on. He explained that it's impossible to get accurate numbers this quickly. In Mosul we apparently didn't have any numbers till a year after the battle ended. The ones we eventually got had huge error margins. This is before we even talk about ability to trust the source of the numbers. He further makes the point that the reported numbers we have right now are astonishingly low given we are talking about a war in a dense urban area, especially once we consider that Hamas has dug a huge tunnel system under civilian infrastructure to which civilians don't get access for shelter. The expert's explanations on the show are worth every minute of it. Sauce: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366-urban-warfare-2-0 https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366...