Posted on 01/20/2025 10:52:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Who says AI can't be useful? People from various industries have begun taking advantage of artificial intelligence to help with writing, translation, coding, and now… horrifying and potentially lethal weapons.
A fascinating but terrifying video posted online shows a man demonstrating a pneumatic gun controlled by ChatGPT that can be commanded to track and fire on targets of a specific color.
Though ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI reportedly shut off the engineer's API access due to disapproving of its application, the results remain truly impressive. With simple voice commands, the engineer directs the gun to target balloons of a specific color… with devastating consequences. For the balloons, at least.
But don't worry, folks, the machine's creator says it was created for an innocuous purpose:
It's a fully automated AI-enabled pneumatic nailing tool, and I think this is going to be super transformational for the construction industry in 2025.
"Construction industry." Sure…
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
Ping!..................
Ping!........
My first thought was a nailgun that attacks the person holding it because they are somehow deemed a threat!
Inevitable!
This is entirely insane. Stop playing games with lethal weapons.
There’s no way the military industrial complex hasn’t already mounted a much more sophisticated system using facial recognition on car sized, and bug sized drones. /s
“Hey, Nail Gun...nail those shingles down. No, not the drywall! No! Not those finished cabinets, either. Wait!! Don’t nail the porcelain tile, you idiot! Why are you nailing the bathtub???”
The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806)
was equipped with pneumatic weapons.
Okay, what were they?...................
supposedly an air rifle that was hand pumped. Lack of ammo and whatnot.
My Ken Burns PBS DVD is in the Player as I Type! I Was born to Late!
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Yes, it was an air rifle that could rapidly fire about 20 shots. They were the elite assault rifles of the era. The Austrians tried to equip a regiment with them but the technology was not quite ready for prime time, as they had problems with leaky pumps and whatnot. And battlefield logistics involving carting around hundreds of pumps for the regiment in the heat of battle was awkward. So they remained a luxury item for the wealthy, but they were quite effective when properly built and maintained.
Yes, .51 caliber
“The air gun illustrated in the animation is 48.5 inches long overall, including a 32.8 inch barrel. The total loaded weight is nine pounds. The 51 caliber barrel is rifled with 12 grooves having one turn in the length of the barrel. The magazine has a capacity of 20 lead balls. Each air-rifleman in the Austrian Army carried two spare buttstock reservoirs and four refill tubes of rifle balls.”
https://lewis-clark.org/tools-and-techniques/weapons/lewiss-air-gun/
Wow! That could put your eye out!....................
Article: “pneumatic gun”
In one of the seasons of The Wire a gang killer used that as their weapon of choice.
Gang members would lure their victim into abandoned buildings and the assassin would shoot them.
I WANT ONE! lol
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