Posted on 02/21/2017 7:27:06 AM PST by plain talk
“The U.S. military is very likely to pursue forms of automation that reduce ‘back-office’ costs over time, as well as remove soldiers from non-combat deployments where they might face risk from adversaries on fluid battlefields, such as in transportation.”
Driver-less vehicles poised to take taxi, train and truck driver jobs in the civilian sector also could nab many combat-support slots in the Army.
“Robots will continue to replace the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs, and this will affect typically more uneducated and unskilled workers,” said Henrik Christensen, director of the Institute for Contextual Robotics at UC San Diego. “You need to look at the mundane things. Logistics tasks will not be solved by people driving around in trucks. Instead, you will have fewer drivers. The lead driver in a convoy might be human, but every truck following behind will not be. The jobs that are the most boring will be the ones that get replaced because they’re the easiest to automate.”
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Let’s get robots in direct combat roles.I’m sick of seeing our country’s best coming back in body bags or maimed for life.
Only took 2 replies to mention SkyNet and the Terminators.
Hey, where’s the RARP? “Robots will continue to replace the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs, and this will affect typically more uneducated and unskilled workers,” is a segregational/dicriminatory/humanist statement.
Death from above is the technique used by Bomber Harris and Curtis LeMay. It worked. Japan who was paused to fight to the last man, woman and child gave up after 2 small nukes and after we fire bombed Tokyo and other cities to cinders.
So we designed smart bombs to pinpoint targets. A good thing for taking out that bunker or radar facility. But nothing like good old saturation bombing to shake the will of the people.
Watch out for Skynet. It will go operational soon?
When will we see Robot Lawyers? A robot with the ability to rebut every Legal Argument ever made by having at the tip of it’s capacitor, a Fully Functional Database and good programming allowing it to easily cite ALL PRECEDENTS since the Beginning of Recorded History.
Off topic, but you touch on an interesting point. I’ve heard that more people died in Tokyo, and more destruction was caused in Tokyo, with our conventional bombing, than death and destruction caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I think it’s strange, that some people debate that using the atomic bomb was some sort of crime against humanity, but those same people don’t address the tremendous death and damage caused by conventional bombings, such as the Tokyo firebombings, or the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg in Germany.
They also don’t address the fact that we didn’t start that war. But seem concerned about the way we ended it.
Ping.
I was up close and personal a couple times with one of these and it’s chase plain over El Mirage dry lake in my 172. Pretty neat looking
“Where’s the ammo?”
“The damned supply truck got hacked!”
ROBOT PORN! The next big thing.
I can see robots taking over many dangerous jobs in the military and even in civilian life, but I'm just not convinced of the above.
Driverless school buses carrying forty or fifty kids?
Let the driverless car take Jack and Jill to school and pick them up in the afternoon?
And all those human driven tractor/trailer rigs carry cargo valued in the thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands. Hey, let's hack those driverless rigs leaving the Mercedes plant with six or eight new SUVs.
I think the value of the cargo, or the passengers, and the danger of hacking or just plain old fashion hijacking, will rule out many potential uses of driverless vehicles.
A driver will make a few hundred bucks delivering cargo worth tens of thousands. I don't think we'll see totally driverless vehicles replacing as many human drivers as some think.
Robo car + HE = perfect terrorist bomb.
Exactly. Or they hack our armed UAVs and turn them on us.
Can’t hack a human operator.
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