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Slaughterbots: a weapon of the future
wordpress ^ | December 9, 2017 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 12/09/2017 5:06:54 PM PST by grundle

Slaughterbots: a weapon of the future

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: military; slaughterbots; technology; weapons
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To: Windflier

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-calculated-a-new-way-to-generate-superstrong-magnetic-fields

Create Extreme magnetic field around you when a threat is detected as protection. Then while you are protected use a secondary weapon to destroy the bots.


21 posted on 12/09/2017 6:03:03 PM PST by IVAXMAN
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To: Windflier
Then direct targeting the source: manufacturing, funding (even Soros) and authorising states.

Total war against the threat.

22 posted on 12/09/2017 6:17:48 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sureautjor)
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To: Windflier

If third party vendor or outsourcing, they will be targeted for elimination.


23 posted on 12/09/2017 6:21:05 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sureautjor)
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To: grundle

Important tech.


24 posted on 12/09/2017 6:36:51 PM PST by Broker (All bills come for collection)
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To: JustaTech

We could try talking to the Slaughterbots. Is it a proper noun now? I dunno....

Maybe they just want what’s best for us. Like politicians do. (P intentionally p’d).


25 posted on 12/09/2017 6:36:58 PM PST by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: JustaTech
The only realistic defense against fast and deadly machines long term, is other fast and deadly machines.

Self driving car bombs are likely to be more of a problem. ISIS used manned suicide car bombs effectively against ground forces, even armored forces, until sophisticated missiles and air power were available as a countermeasure. Large numbers of autonomous car bombs would be very hard to detect and defend against.

When autonomous vehicles go bad it won't be pretty.

26 posted on 12/09/2017 6:37:55 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: JustaTech

This comes to mind.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Raston_Warrior_Robot


27 posted on 12/09/2017 6:38:22 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Celerity

ROFL!!

I got a kidlet getting a PhD. in A.I. I’ll run this stuff by him when he’s home for Christmas.


28 posted on 12/09/2017 6:42:57 PM PST by lizma2
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To: grundle

All I know is this guy is gonna ge bit...

29 posted on 12/09/2017 6:47:49 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: grundle
Seriously though, we could build one that could roam the land creating havoc...





30 posted on 12/09/2017 6:54:14 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: grundle

31 posted on 12/09/2017 7:00:17 PM PST by Trillian
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To: grundle

This is bull.


32 posted on 12/09/2017 8:28:40 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ( DJT won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Civil war before we get more?)
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To: Deaf Smith

Your neighborhood threat won’t be a nation-state or some group in a cave on the other side of the world. The machine coming into your house to steal your stuff if you’re lucky, or to dismember your family if you’re not lucky, will have been built from a Chinese kit bought through Amazon and then modified in terms of software and probably hardware as well, in the garage or workshop of a local nut or for money by a “guy who doesn’t ask questions”. It won’t be fully autonomous in our lifetimes, but it will be remote-controlled by a thief, kidnapper or thrill killer wearing VR goggles.

Opportunists will build these things and then sell them or rent out time on them to unseen and unknowable operators anywhere in the world over the dark net, who’ll anonymously pay with Monero and operate the machines over 5G and the Internet while getting feeds of 3D video and audio.

What the unseen operators may choose to do with the machines is a matter of imagining what a twisted demon would do if it had no fear of apprehension. Defenses will be essential.


33 posted on 12/09/2017 9:12:51 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: grundle

Personal EMP Pulsed Shielding

Counterweapon of the Future


34 posted on 12/09/2017 11:18:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: JustaTech
Until now, I did not think I had the need for 762 AP rounds.

A number of years ago, I gave another Freeper 700 rounds of French Rhodisian steel jacket 762 ammo.

35 posted on 12/10/2017 6:45:35 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sureautjor)
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To: Windflier
Consider the state of voice recognition software. Sometimes it misunderstands us when we are trying to get it to understand us.

Now consider face recognition that would not be fooled into attacking a picture of a face, or a store manikin or the like, but would be savvy enough to attack a person with a mask that looks nothing like a person.

Certainly one could theoretically create so many of the things and have them attack en masse extremely indiscriminately....but a daisy cutter is probably way easier, cheaper, and more effective at that point.

36 posted on 12/10/2017 8:44:22 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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