Posted on 09/03/2019 9:45:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Wallops island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses—is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets. But it also makes for a perfect, quiet spot to test a revolutionary weapons technology.
If a fishing vessel had steamed past the area last October, the crew might have glimpsed half a dozen or so 35-foot-long inflatable boats darting through the shallows, and thought little of it. But if crew members had looked closer, they would have seen that no one was aboard: The engine throttle levers were shifting up and down as if controlled by ghosts. The boats were using high-tech gear to sense their surroundings, communicate with one another, and automatically position themselves so, in theory, .50-caliber machine guns that can be strapped to their bows could fire a steady stream of bullets to protect troops landing on a beach.
The secretive effort—part of a Marine Corps program called Sea Mob—was meant to demonstrate that vessels equipped with cutting-edge technology could soon undertake lethal assaults without a direct human hand at the helm. It was successful: Sources familiar with the test described it as a major milestone in the development of a new wave of artificially intelligent weapons systems soon to make their way to the battlefield.
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I wonder what happens when drones can get really small and maneuverable like wasps or bees. Someone will be tempted to deploy swarms with facial/identity recognition capabilities and some type of nerve agent delivery system. Then you bring in drone-killing drones to defend against it if you have tech I guess.
When the technology replaces volunteers/mercenaries with drones, citizens will become even more removed and apathetic about foreign engagements than they are now with no conscription for decades. Although there might be a lot more war footage to be seen by then and released on the internet so maybe it would be a draw.
Freegards
Robot soldiers don’t flinch when ordered to fire on civilians.
You can quit wondering.
Might look something like this...
I know, it’s almost mandatory to post this...
https://youtu.be/ecClODh4zYk
Watch the British TV show “Black Mirror”.
The episode “Metalhead”
It is about robotic dogs.
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Asimov is spinning in his grave.
We are on the way there.
The question is: how long will it take, and will God allow it?
There seems to be a limit to achieving human level intelligence.
At least my highly professional programmer daughter tells me AI is not advancing very fast, a very difficult problem...
This is what I pay for in taxes...not paying for illegal aliens and their welfare crap.
“Soylent Green, Terminator or Idiocracy.”
This country is likely to become a mixture of all three.
Until the enemy robots target our robot command center. Then things will start getting real.
What? You though we were the only ones that would have such equipment?
Welcome to the party.
Asimov was an atheist, he is dead and incapable of spinning.
It’s been true for awhile that they could make fighter jets that would go beyond what humans can tolerate in terms of g-force etc. this stuff is coming no Doubt
And the purpose of prominently displaying a cross in the article’s illustration is....?
ED-209.
Was any scene ever worse than Lt. Murphy getting smoked?
I was 12 y/o, but that was brutal.
No question that it’s coming. I did an inspection of a ginormous factory that was completely automated from start to finish of the process. Even the forklifts were running up and down the aisles, trackless and unmanned, loading, unloading and stacking. The 30 or so humans that worked there were almost superfluous.
Colossus?
Worse, what if they are AI and together decide something terrible? Before everyone says “Skynet” (or V’ger) you may have heard about the experiment where they hooked two AI negotiating computers together and the two invented a language the designers could not even understand. MUI it scared the hell out of them (and they cut the connect) — and it should scare the hell out of all of us.
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