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> If war is mostly played out from a disrance I left a company because they pivoted to exactly this. There are so many companies in this space today, testing w
by cik 6mo ago
> If war is mostly played out from a disrance
I left a company because they pivoted to exactly this. There are so many companies in this space today, testing what they call "physical AI autonomy" today, and we have to recognize that this is our today.
There are entire marketplace options for buying the pretrained, supported, private models, or the datasets if you have your own goals. If you're interested purely in ditzing around with GPS denied, or communications lost, you can do that today.
I watched a demo video, in March where a company was sharing their remote instructed (note, not controlled) multiple format (spider, dog) robot swarm. The company claimed to be 35km away from where the drones dropped off the payloads, and the mission was engaged. Lightweight explosives were used to toss off a car.
This is our present.
- TheScaryOne 6mo agoI can't wait for the Faro Plague and the robot dinosaurs.
- danny_codes 6mo agoFriendly fire is going to get crazy. Can’t trust an LLM on its own for more than a few iterations..
- dyauspitr 6mo agoDon’t worry, it will auto compact its context.
- rich_sasha 6mo agoIt's going to happen and at some level I'd rather war casualties were measured in robots rather than people. My concern is the cottage industry of integrating guns with half baked AI at the lowest cost. And probably vibe coded too. The companies don't care - a sale is a sale. MoD maybe doesn't care - 90% accuracy and less human casualties on their own side are a win. Governments want to save money and by the time they find out the robots go rogue, it will be too late to do anything about it.
- spwa4 6mo agoThe problem is always the same. It's not just MoD (is it MoW now?) that will have access to this. YoloV8 + optical flow works fine on an esp32. You want to give a drone rough coordinates for a refinery and hit something in it, like a storage tank? That'll work. This means, give it 5 years, relatively small groups will have access to it. This cannot be stopped. The only real answer is to work to have groups that you can trust to have access to this first.
- squigz 6mo ago> The only real answer is to work to have groups that you can trust to have access to this first. How will this help exactly?
- galkk 6mo agoDon you know? The world peace and harmony will be achieved when all the good guys will gather together and kill all the bad guys.
- spwa4 6mo ago1) they'll know it exists in the first place 2) they can figure out a plan for when it happens 3) they can see if any countermeasures would be effective 4) they can figure out what to look for and find those weapons before they're fired cfr. nuclear deterrence, right. There is "nothing" the US can do about other nations enriching uranium and making bombs, other than bombing those countries. The US can't change the laws of physics, follow the right formula and it'll work. However the US can figure out exactly what to look for to either prevent it from happening through intervention or at the very least get some warning before it's used ...
- rich_sasha 6mo agoSadly, building an AI that analyses camera imagery and aims at humans, from scratch, is these days almost an intern project. It's not really something you can control or ban, the way you can control, dunno, uranium enrichment. Integrating it with a robot and sticking a gun on it, thankfully, requires a bit more know-how.
- matwood 6mo agoPeople saw Black Mirror and made a business plan out of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)