Posted on 12/09/2017 5:06:54 PM PST by grundle
This fictional video was created as a warning about what may be real in the near future: tiny little drones with artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and enough explosive to destroy a person’s head. One drone can kill one specific person. A big group of drones can kill a large number of specific people, or an entire city for that matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
gov’t is evil
And torturebots that dart vics with poison for the extended revenge. Imagine if Putin could Poloniumize anyone he wanted.
We’d better start dreaming up counter measures for this. We can defeat men, but not millions of swarming micro drones.
A world in which showing your face could mean instant death...
Make decoys that fool the face recognion and wear a mask?
“Make decoys that fool the face recognion and wear a mask?”
If we all wear Hillary masks for the next few years.....
I wonder if a cell phone jammer would disable them? A wet spaghetti mass of string projectile would work. Someday everyone may have defensive drones swarming around them to intercept any offensive drones targeting them.
Last week we were worried because anyone could build an effective EMP in their basement....
... This week we’re afraid of clouds of robots that can be easily defeated by basement-built EMPs.
Won't work. :' -( P> In a time of national uprising, these bots would be deployed to target areas to kill every live human, regardless of identity or political affiliation. Collateral damage would be of secondary importance to the Empire.
But....but...surely humans aren’t evil enough to build robots that lack Asimov’s 3 Laws?
That's along the lines of what I'm thinking.
I like that. Sounds like good ol' American ingenuity to me.
Sarah Connor approves.
Tennis rackets. Use proper grip and lots of over head swing practice.
Looks like it might be time to start manufacturing homemade microwave guns.
Dark sarcasm noted. You nailed it.
If that's the best defense we can come up with, we may as well welcome our new overlords.
Think, man, think!
Another good one. Keep 'em coming!
Best to be talking about this now, because it is a real possibility.
You don’t need much artifical intelligence or facial recognition.
Just program them to attack people sized and moving objects. But here is a potential countermeasure:
Photonic fence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH_x3kpG8Z4
I’ve spent years thinking the issue through. It’s not just the drone swarms, there will also be humanoid (more like gorilla-oid) machines which move faster than the eye can follow and punch through walls. Not decades from now, but within ten years for sure, five years possibly.
Jamming bandwidth will work initially, until they become fully autonomous. Passive defenses (stone and steel) will be of value, initially, until the machines become clever enough and powerful enough to rapidly disassemble just about anything. A shotgun with hardened slugs will be of value, initially, until the machines move too fast to see and have vital areas covered with armor. Despite the obvious tendency to create collateral havoc, EMP may be of value, initially, until the machines become hardened to it.
All passive defenses are doomed to fail, including living underground. EMP and firearms will not save us. The only realistic defense against fast and deadly machines long term, is other fast and deadly machines.
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