Posted on 06/15/2021 2:18:42 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.
Nothing transforms warfare more violently than new weapons technology. In prehistoric times, it was the club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the sword. The 16th century brought rifles. The World Wars of the 20th century introduced machine guns, planes, and atomic bombs.
Now we might be seeing the first stages of the next battlefield revolution: autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence.
In March, the United Nations Security Council published an extensive report on the Second Libyan War that describes what could be the first-known case of an AI-powered autonomous weapon killing people in the battlefield.
The incident took place in March 2020, when soldiers with the Government of National Accord (GNA) were battling troops supporting the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar (called Haftar Affiliated Forces, or HAF, in the report). One passage describes how GNA troops may have used an autonomous drone to kill retreating HAF soldiers:
(Excerpt) Read more at bigthink.com ...
” The World Wars of the 20th century introduced machine guns” -— What about the Gatling Gun, which was used during the Civil War?
woo hoo IBTSR!
the gun you refer to is not autonomous
skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997...
Its a report from the UN.
I’ll wait until I see a reliable source.
Bkmk
We have an autonomous idiot robot as president,why not shoulder robots?
I only saw a couple episodes, but I like that show.
A.I. In this case through an algorithm developed by a human, which means it is still a killing by a human through indirect multistage means.
Even if the mouse trap is complicated, its still set off our designed by a human.
Lemme know when we’re at the the threshold of A.I designed and developed A.I. with original mission planning designed by A.I.
we already have skynet. remember sarah connor.
The Civil War era Gatling Gun was huge and unwieldy, hand cranked thing on 3 foot wheels the crew out of necessity were exposed to enemy fire, machine guns are gas fed are lighter and very portable.
the gun you refer to is not autonomous
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You mean automatic?
“Even if the mouse trap is complicated, its still set off our designed by a human.”
I’m sure that will be a great comfort when the hunter-killers are mercilessly crushing the life out of me :)
nope
read the headline
STM Kargu-2 is a semi-autonomous drone
Both the US and Russia are developing small unmanned tracked vehicles that pack either belt fed machine guns or a tube launched shell/missile.
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