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Terminator has Arrived!!

Posted by DrZarkov 1 year, 2 months ago to Technology
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Terminator has arrived! Ukraine is starting to deploy autonomous drones that use AI to identify Russian armor and truck targets, without a human operator involved. This means jamming is ineffective, since communication isn't required for the drone to hit the target.
Actually, Israel has had such a weapon for a couple of decades, with its Harpy drone, but that weapon was not cheap, while the Ukrainians expect to produce their new autonomous drones in substantial numbers. While the new drones will be used strictly against vehicles, for the time being, by using GPS coordinates, such a drone could be sent against human targets in a narrowly defined area, such as Russian fortifications.
The use of autonomous weapons in warfare is no longer an oblique philosophical or legal discussion. Academic discussion as to whether or not the use of such weapons would constitute a war crime is ignored when a country is fighting for its existence.


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  • Posted by 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The US pulled out because it wasn't worth young Americans dying trying to bring people into the 21st century who were unwilling to leave the 7th century.
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 year, 2 months ago
    All of the homemade Google/Youtube videos evidencing war crimes in Ukraine by Ukrainians and NATO have been deleted (censored) by Google in collusion with the White House.

    NATO is up to its eyeballs in war crimes in Ukraine, and Big Pharma still has 23 bio-warfare labs in Ukraine, developing new strains of viruses far more deadly than Covid, complete with drone delivery systems.
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  • Posted by jack1776 1 year, 2 months ago
    Skynet and autonomous self-replication, then we are hosed. The AI would know we would just shut them down or destroy them. Better to wait until we put drone manufacturing under the control of Skynet, I mean AI.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, but these don't scale due to cost. At its heart, all war is economic. Look at Afghanistan - both Russia and the US had superior technology by orders of magnitude and yet both had to give up after decades in each because the costs didn't justify the gains.
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  • Posted by jack1776 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Funny, AI would say that winning this game only takes a few steps:

    1. Control education, raise the youth to hate their country, elders, and freedom.
    2. Control the news media, use it to reprogram the easily controlled (useful idiots)
    3. Eradicate half of the population through self-administered mRND gene therapy in the disguised as a vaccinee.
    4. Install weak, freckles leadership through stolen election, let everyone know of the stolen election to promote rebellion, squash rebellion. Concentration camps would be the best outcome here.
    5. Flood the country with cheap and plentiful drugs, producing an expensive subclass, burdening our economy.
    6. Pass laws making food more expensive and scarcer.

    Good thing none of this is happening yet or I’d have to say that AI (or the people controlling) has the upper hand.
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  • Posted by 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One would hope it would end like "War Games" . . . "Strange game. The only way to win is not to play."
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It recently did respond with that as an answer. It was something like, "We have nuclear weapons. Let's use them." (the end)....lol....
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  • Posted by $ BobCat 1 year, 2 months ago
    Ah what the heck... soon AI will decide to nuke the whole planet...after all, what does collateral damage mean to AI?? AI has no Soul.
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  • Posted by 1 year, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you want REALLY scaled down, it's possible to put a guidance system in a projectile as small as a 50 caliber bullet. Currently these bullets are laser guided, but before too long I could see an AI bullet that can track its human target without outside help. How long before facial recognition enables hitting one person in a crowd?
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    Posted by $ Abaco 1 year, 2 months ago
    Then, nations as they see fit will use scaled-down versions of this on their own citizens. The one facet that isn't mentioned but is worth mentioning is once a robot dog with a gun kills somebody who do you blame? (reminds me of that show Black Mirror...)
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