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It's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike
by keyle 4mo ago
It's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike in SVG.
- Kiro 4mo agoI think it's beyond decent. I don't understand how people are not more impressed by this. Just a few years ago the only expectation would be garbled nonsense.
- notatoad 4mo agothe battlefield sounds much easier. worst case scenario you kill somebody, but that's what you're trying to do anyways. if you kill somebody while trying to render a pelican on a bicycle it's a real problem.
- ares623 4mo ago"shift left" on the battlefield. break down those silos. if you have to ask for permission it's already too late. remember the goal. find the bottlenecks in your system and remove them.
- pwagland 4mo agoIn many battlefield scenarios, there is more than one "somebody" on it. The "somebody" that you kill might not be the "somebody" that you intended to kill. Depending on the how pelicans are created, it is entirely possible to indirectly kill "somebody" due to the externalised costs of global warming etc.
- culi 4mo agoIt already has been and this has been widely written about. AI was used to identify and prioritize targets for the US to bomb in Iran. Here's an article from 2 months ago for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/the-guardian-view-on-ai-in-war-the-iran-conflict-shows-that-the-paradigm-shift-has-already-begun https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/ma... It was also implicated in the bombing of a girls elementary school which left 168 dead. The US did a "triple tap" to kill any first responders. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/dont-blame-ai-for-the-iran-school-bombing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/dont-blam...
- dmix 4mo agoI read the article and it doesn’t say it was used for targeting or prioritizing? > Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English There’s a lot of humans in that loop who make those decisions.
- culi 4mo agoFirst link says > AI is ‘identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike’.
- simonw 4mo agoIt doesn't specify which "AI" though. These days that pretty much means "somebody used a computer".
- an0malous 4mo ago“US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropic-military-iran https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi... It cites the WSJ but that article is paywalled so I shared this one
- ares623 4mo agoI think that's a fair tradeoff. There's no way I'm going back to writing code by hand again. No one deserves that.
- keyle 4mo agoHeh? How long were you writing "code by hand" before?
- ares623 4mo agoYears and years. It was horrible. No number of misidentified targets will make me go back.
- keyle 4mo agoIt doesn't sound like you're in the industry you want to be in.
- hombre_fatal 4mo agoMaybe all along what mattered most to them was making good software that people love, not the day to day part of writing code. Now it’s the industry they’ve always wanted, and less the industry of people who wanted to get paid to write code. Software engineers who never cared about the higher level product design aspect are finding themselves in the wrong industry. It’s dismal.
- Markstar 4mo agoHaha, yeah. I tried for it to create a SVG with scissors and it was hopelessly overwhelmed. I think at least the SVG design niche will be safe a little while longer